Quality of Care and Health Status in Ukraine

We conducted a national level assessment of the quality of clinical care practice in the Ukrainian healthcare system for two important causes of death and chronic disease conditions. We tested two hypotheses: a) quality of care is predicted by physician and facility characteristics and b) health sta...

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Main Authors: Peabody, John W., Luck, Jeff, DeMaria, Lisa, Menon, Rekha
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23148
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spelling okr-10986-231482021-04-23T14:04:13Z Quality of Care and Health Status in Ukraine Peabody, John W. Luck, Jeff DeMaria, Lisa Menon, Rekha quality of care health care delivery non-communicable diseases health policy We conducted a national level assessment of the quality of clinical care practice in the Ukrainian healthcare system for two important causes of death and chronic disease conditions. We tested two hypotheses: a) quality of care is predicted by physician and facility characteristics and b) health status is predicted by quality of care. Younger, female physicians provide a higher quality of care—as well as those that have had recent continuing medical education (CME) in chronic disease or health behaviors. Higher quality was associated with better health outcomes. 2015-11-30T17:03:42Z 2015-11-30T17:03:42Z 2014-09-30 Journal Article BMC Health Services Research http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23148 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank BioMed Central Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia Eastern Europe Ukraine
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topic quality of care
health care delivery
non-communicable diseases
health policy
spellingShingle quality of care
health care delivery
non-communicable diseases
health policy
Peabody, John W.
Luck, Jeff
DeMaria, Lisa
Menon, Rekha
Quality of Care and Health Status in Ukraine
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Eastern Europe
Ukraine
description We conducted a national level assessment of the quality of clinical care practice in the Ukrainian healthcare system for two important causes of death and chronic disease conditions. We tested two hypotheses: a) quality of care is predicted by physician and facility characteristics and b) health status is predicted by quality of care. Younger, female physicians provide a higher quality of care—as well as those that have had recent continuing medical education (CME) in chronic disease or health behaviors. Higher quality was associated with better health outcomes.
format Journal Article
author Peabody, John W.
Luck, Jeff
DeMaria, Lisa
Menon, Rekha
author_facet Peabody, John W.
Luck, Jeff
DeMaria, Lisa
Menon, Rekha
author_sort Peabody, John W.
title Quality of Care and Health Status in Ukraine
title_short Quality of Care and Health Status in Ukraine
title_full Quality of Care and Health Status in Ukraine
title_fullStr Quality of Care and Health Status in Ukraine
title_full_unstemmed Quality of Care and Health Status in Ukraine
title_sort quality of care and health status in ukraine
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2015
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23148
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