Data Visualization: Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change

This National Academies report summarizes a 2015 workshop on quality improvement tools and the global quality improvement agenda. Quality of care is a priority for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency's missions abroad and their host country partners work in quality improvement, but a lack of evidence about the best ways to facilitate such improvements has constrained their informed selection of interventions. Six different methods—accreditation, COPE, improvement collaborative, standards-based management and recognitions…

This report from the World Bank is the ninth and final volume of the Disease Control Priorities, third edition (DCP3) series. It provides an overview of the findings and methods explored in the first eight volumes, placing them within a framework that identifies an efficient pathway toward essential universal health coverage through the implementation of 21 essential packages that include health interventions and fiscal and intersectoral policies.  The Disease Control Priorities Network (DCP) promotes and…

This case study from the Western Public Health Casebooks 2019 provides a fictional scenario related to the opioid crisis in Canada. The overall premise of the case is to explore the possibility of providing emergency Naloxone kits to patients in emergency rooms, as opioid related deaths in Canada have spiked in recent years. However, the current hospital staff are apprehensive about providing these kits to patients because they believe the kits will “enable drug users.”…