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BMJ Open Qual
January 2025
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy.
The increasing emphasis on risk management and quality assessment in hospital management necessitates strict adherence to government and international standards. Those standards are particularly important, and certification requirements further underscore this need. The objective of this paper is to outline the application of the INTegrated Audit Model in a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Public Health Manag Pract
January 2025
Authors Affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana (Drs Gee, Taylor, and Yeager).
Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine whether differences in self-reported core competency skill gaps among U.S. governmental public health workers with and without a formal degree in public health have changed since the last assessment in 2017.
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January 2025
Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
High-quality health systems are key to improving population health outcomes globally. In India, the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) is a certification policy adopted by the government to improve the quality of care in public health facilities. This policy aims to assess public health facilities through a set of comprehensive, pre-defined standards derived from global best practices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPediatrics
January 2025
Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco, MC.
Pediatricians and pediatric trainees in North America are increasingly involved in caring for children and adolescents in or from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In many LMICs, hazardous environmental exposures-notably outdoor and household air pollution, water pollution, lead, pesticides, and other manufactured chemicals-are highly prevalent and account for twice the proportion of disease and deaths among young children as in North America. Climate change will likely worsen these exposures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Manage
February 2025
Marine Stewardship Council, London, UK.
Management of natural resources and environmental systems has often involved top-down approaches in which government agencies set and enforce regulations on extractive activities. More recently, market-driven approaches were introduced to incentivise producers to voluntarily engage in practices that align with management objectives and support regulations. For the first time, we compare government and voluntary approaches within fisheries management systems and quantify their relative influences on the sustainability status of fish populations.
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