Towards improved health service quality in Tanzania: An approach to increase efficiency and effectiveness of routine supportive supervision.

ABSTRACT: Effective supportive supervision of healthcare services is crucial for improving and maintaining quality of care. However, this process can be challenging in an environment with chronic shortage of qualified human resources, overburdened healthcare providers, multiple roles of district managers, weak supply chains, high donor fragmentation and inefficient allocation of limited financial resources. Operating in this environment, we systematically evaluated an approach developed in Tanzania to strengthen the implementation of routine supportive supervision of primary healthcare providers. The approach included a systematic quality assessment at health facilities using an electronic tool and subsequent result dissemination at council level. Mixed methods were used to compare the new supportiv

SUBMITTER: Renggli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6128487 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature