Continuous quality improvement for family and community practice in UHC

ABSTRACT

@#Quality health care is one of the central themes in the reform areas of the Universal Health Care (UHC). But in low- and middleincome countries like the Philippines, quality of health care is suboptimal. There are several challenges in implementing quality improvement in family and community practice. These include a weak health system arising from inadequate human resource and capacity, low utilization of data for health care improvement, and minimal involvement of patients to demand better quality and safety. There are also barriers, such as lack of access to evidence-based medicine resources, poor insurance systems compound the complexity of addressing health care quality. While the PAFP has already done these trainings in the past and available experiences on primary care CQI initiatives published in the local literature, in this article, we propose simple steps in line with what may be the requirement of the UHC reform.