Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety

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Free Online Course: Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 10 weeks long, 2-4 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety is taught by Ashish Jha.

Overview
  • Improving access to healthcare is only as useful as the quality of care provided. Many agree that quality is important – but what is it? How do we define it? How do we measure it? And most importantly, how might we make it better?

    The course is designed for those who care about health and healthcare and wish to learn more about how to measure and improve that care – for themselves, for their institutions, or for their countries. Each session will be interactive and provide concrete tools that students can use. We will empower you to raise questions, propose concrete solutions, and promote change.

    We have assembled leading thinkers from around the globe – not only people who are experts – but people with real, hands-on experience running organizations, hospitals, and ministries of health. So join us – whether you are a physician, nurse, or other healthcare provider, if you are a student of medicine, public health, or health policy, or a patient who simply cares about getting good care – this course is for you.

Syllabus
  • Lesson 1: Burden
    Lesson 2: Measurement
    Lesson 3: Standards
    Lesson 4: Improvement
    Lesson 5: IT and Data
    Lesson 6: Management
    Lesson 7: Patients
    Lesson 8: Public Systems