title: [Unit of quality assurance. A strategy to insure optimal levels of medical care quality].
abstract: The quality assurance unit of medical attention (UGC) is one of the outside programs of the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), which was created may 25 1989, as agreement of the government board (INSP) to coordinate the efforts of the same Institute on the field, developed the knowledge in quality assurance and to promote it's application at the health services. The task of the UGC is to promote a quality culture and to create consciousness on the health personnel, on the contribution that this quality has in the one service rendered, to make them participate in a determined, enthusiastic, and effective way for the success of the objectives and institutional goals. The areas which the UGC develops to obtain it's objectives are four: teaching, investigation, advising and information. The generality of the quality to all the functions of the health services is a priority task of UGC to favor, in a significative way, the progress of the health services in Mexico, and as possible, in Latin America.
authors.affiliation: Programas para América Latina de la Fundación W.K. Kellog, México, D.F.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ruelas-Barajas
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Vidal-Pineda
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care
vernacular_title: Unidad de garantía de calidad. Estrategia para asegurar niveles óptimos en la calidad de la atención médica.