Building High-Quality Health Systems to Improve Nutrition Services for Women and Children : Policy and Implementation Considerations
A high-quality health systems approach that integrates nutrition is vital to accelerate progress in nutrition and meet the sustainable development goals by 2030.High-quality health systems for nutrition include integrated service provision and supplies, performance monitoring, strategic purchasing, and functioning referral services. Underpinning these components are political leadership and commitment, well-defined quality metrics and quality and timely nutrition data, and an accountability system that nurtures demand for quality services, among others. Several World Bank and Global Financing Facility (GFF) - co-financed projects are investing in building high-quality health system foundations to improve the quality of nutrition services and can serve as examples for improving quality of nutrition care.
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Format: | Brief biblioteca |
Language: | English English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022-08
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Subjects: | HEALTH SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, INTEGRATED NUTRITION SERVICES, MALNUTRITION, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, |
Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099624209232228089/IDU06cc840a500d9e043a00a92d09275e57fc154 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38059 |
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Summary: | A high-quality health systems
approach that integrates nutrition is vital to accelerate
progress in nutrition and meet the sustainable development
goals by 2030.High-quality health systems for nutrition
include integrated service provision and supplies,
performance monitoring, strategic purchasing, and
functioning referral services. Underpinning these components
are political leadership and commitment, well-defined
quality metrics and quality and timely nutrition data, and
an accountability system that nurtures demand for quality
services, among others. Several World Bank and Global
Financing Facility (GFF) - co-financed projects are
investing in building high-quality health system foundations
to improve the quality of nutrition services and can serve
as examples for improving quality of nutrition care. |
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