Grace Ku

The US and Europe have cut billions in health aid — can anyone fill the gap? It's time to radically reimagine global health, leaders tell World Health Summit in Berlin.

“In a partnership on equal footing, one side cannot decide to reduce a previously agreed contribution by 25% or 50%. A cooperation should be more reliable than a donor–recipient relationship,” says @gorikooms.bsky.social, health-policy researcher at ITM.
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As the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs approaches, I share our work on quality of chronic care and the possible contribution of purchasing arrangements in low- and middle-income coutries. May this inspire decision makers and implementers. iris.who.int/handle/10665...

Care cascades can be used to assess weaknesses of a health system in delivering care. In this article, we constructed and compared cascades of care for hypertension to learn lessons in improving quality of integrated care.
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Translating Guidelines, Protocols, and Care Pathways for Hypertension Into Effective Program Implementation AbstractBACKGROUND. Inconsistent terminology and conceptual overlap among clinical practice guidelines, treatment protocols, and care pathways can lead to

Our brief communication on clarifying guidelines, protocols and pathways and their uses may be of great help for more successful implementation and/or scaling up of adaptations of the WHO HEARTS Technical Package academic.oup.com/ajh/article/...

Improving the quality of chronic care through purchasing arrangements in resource-constrained settings: insights from an international Delphi survey There are substantial issues with the quality of care (QoC) received by persons living with chronic conditions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). One possible channel to imp...

Amid the frenzy of preparations for the UN High Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases and working on the political declaration, you might find this work on NCD financing mechanisms to improve quality of chronic care interesting
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NCD prevention and care: Yes, it is vitally important, but who is doing it? In December 2024,  the International Research Network on Quality of Care for Chronic Conditions  held its first meeting in Antwerp. The focus was the growing burden of chronic, non-communicable diseas...

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