Leveraging public engagement to improve healthcare quality: The role of community and stakeholder engagement in Colombia's National Quality of Care Strategy.

ABSTRACT: Public engagement, also referred to as community and stakeholder engagement (CSE), and high-quality care are core components of strategies to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As part of the movement toward achieving UHC, Colombia has developed one of the first national quality of care strategies in the Latin America and Caribbean region. However, the degree to which public engagement was considered in the development and implementation of Colombia's National Quality of Care Strategy (the Strategy) is not clearly understood. With a growing global consensus on the importance of public engagement in health systems and policy, we use a qualitative case study comprising a document analysis followed by qualitative interviews, to ex

SUBMITTER: Benjamin KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12585033 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature