Introduction One of the principal goals of any health care system is to improve health
through the provision of clinical and public health services. Decentralization as a reform …

Because health systems are conceptualized as social systems, embedded in social contexts
and shaped by human agency, values are a key factor in health system change. As such …

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across
a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle …

The move towards universal health coverage is premised on having well-functioning health
systems, which can assure provision of the essential health and related services people …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to summarize the available pool of literature on service
quality to identify different dimensions of service quality in the healthcare industry and …

Purpose This study aims to conduct a literature review on factors that influence the
implementation and design of performance measurement systems in nonprofit …

Background: Health service delivery indicators are designed to reveal how well health
services meet a community's needs. Effective use of the data can enable targeted …

Low-resource settings often have limited use of local data for health system planning and
decision-making. To promote local data use for decision-making and priority setting, we …

The burgeoning literature on resilient health systems in low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs) provides limited insights into the practice of resilience-building. To address this …

Background: Health systems are complex social systems, and values constitute a central
dimension of their complexity. Values are commonly understood as key drivers of health …