Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements

Background: Maternity care is an imperative aspect of healthcare systems due to its demand of intensive care focusing on mothers' and newborns' health. By consideration, child birth is a natural process but needs appropriate care. Provision of quality care to mothers and newborns at healt...

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Main Authors: Rehman, Adeela, Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura
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Published: 2016
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spelling iium-513402016-10-24T08:25:33Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51340/ Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements Rehman, Adeela Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura HQ The family. Marriage. Woman RG Gynecology and obstetrics Background: Maternity care is an imperative aspect of healthcare systems due to its demand of intensive care focusing on mothers' and newborns' health. By consideration, child birth is a natural process but needs appropriate care. Provision of quality care to mothers and newborns at healthcare centers and hospitals is crucial for consideration in health systems. Method: The paper consisted of conceptual understanding of the measurement of quality care for maternal and newborns in hospitals. After careful screening of the available literature, 30 articles were selected and reviewed for this paper. Results: Various literature focused on three perspectives to study quality of care i.e; structure, process and outcome. Hospitals are the place to provide short term care service to the patient revolved around the activities provided by doctors, nurses and other staff. The utilization of efcient health services depends on the providers' ability and competence to deliver quality care, which shows the process of health services. On the other hand, the patient's centeredness is also the apex agenda to know the outcome of the services delivered to them. Conclusion: Therefore, in order to study quality of health care it is necessary to highlight the provision of quality care services in terms of structure, process and patient's perspective towards health care services and its quality to achieve better outcomes for maternity care. 2016-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51340/4/51340.pdf Rehman, Adeela and Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura (2016) Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements. Pakistan Journal of Public Health, 6 (2). pp. 3-8. ISSN 2225-0891 E-ISSN 2226-7018 http://www.hsa.edu.pk/journal/2014/june_2016.pdf
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RG Gynecology and obstetrics
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RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Rehman, Adeela
Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura
Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements
description Background: Maternity care is an imperative aspect of healthcare systems due to its demand of intensive care focusing on mothers' and newborns' health. By consideration, child birth is a natural process but needs appropriate care. Provision of quality care to mothers and newborns at healthcare centers and hospitals is crucial for consideration in health systems. Method: The paper consisted of conceptual understanding of the measurement of quality care for maternal and newborns in hospitals. After careful screening of the available literature, 30 articles were selected and reviewed for this paper. Results: Various literature focused on three perspectives to study quality of care i.e; structure, process and outcome. Hospitals are the place to provide short term care service to the patient revolved around the activities provided by doctors, nurses and other staff. The utilization of efcient health services depends on the providers' ability and competence to deliver quality care, which shows the process of health services. On the other hand, the patient's centeredness is also the apex agenda to know the outcome of the services delivered to them. Conclusion: Therefore, in order to study quality of health care it is necessary to highlight the provision of quality care services in terms of structure, process and patient's perspective towards health care services and its quality to achieve better outcomes for maternity care.
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author Rehman, Adeela
Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura
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title Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements
title_short Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements
title_full Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements
title_fullStr Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements
title_full_unstemmed Quality of maternal healthcare: Theoretical perspective on quality measurements
title_sort quality of maternal healthcare: theoretical perspective on quality measurements
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url http://irep.iium.edu.my/51340/
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