Quality Management in Healthcare

Article Summary
According to Syed, Leatherman, Mensah-Abrampah, Neilson & Kelley (2018), healthcare quality demands more than enhancing access to primary healthcare needs in order to achieve health goals in the universal domain. The healthcare quality agenda, however, has been prioritized by key stakeholders worldwide such as the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO) and Lancet Global Health. The organizations strongly advocate for creation for a healthcare-quality vision, shared by all practitioners of healthcare services as a strategic approach towards enhancing commitment towards quality healthcare and creating a positive healthcare culture. The approach as well includes aligning health priorities with the quality strategies, providing supporting infrastructure for the quality-improvement vision (Syed et al., 2018). Importantly, WHO emphasizes ensuring control measures implementation matches the quality agenda, including specifying input of disease-specific initiatives addressing quality concerns. Additionally, healthcare organizations ought to partner as stakeholders to identify quality gaps and together make quality-based solutions to seal identified challenges in the healthcare sector.
Article application in Quality Management
The article can significantly contribute to quality management in particularly assisting setting the direction, recommending useful infrastructure and involvement in healthcare quality agenda not only to provide healthcare services but also minimize their impacts in the society (Syed et al., 2018). The article clearly elaborates the need for quality healthcare and recommends for initiatives and approaches that could assist achieve related goals such as stakeholders’ inclusion in problem identification and problem-solving. It also specifically mentions the need for diversified and specific approaches in enhancing quality-enhancement. Sharing of WHO quality policies as well enhance opportunities for reforms aimed at enhancing quality healthcare (Savit, 2016). Collectively, the article could, for instance, contribute significantly to creating a healthcare quality-culture, foster quality policies and implements such quality controls with the help of a well-established infrastructure.

References
Syed, S. B., Leatherman, S., Mensah-Abrampah, N., Neilson, M., & Kelley, E. (2018). Improving the quality of health care across the health system. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 96(12), 799-799. doi:10.2471/blt.18.226266
Savitz, L. A. (2016). From the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research. Quality Management in Health Care, 25(4), 248-249. doi:10.1097/qmh.0000000000000112