title: Australian Community Health Association Practice Standards and their application for primary health care in Papua New Guinea.
abstract: This paper describes the Australian Community Health Association Practice Standards (CHASP) and their application in the CHASP review process as a model that could be emulated to improve the quality of primary health care delivery in Papua New Guinea. The characteristics which could be beneficially emulated in Papua New Guinea are the comprehensive nature of the standards and their wide applicability, the balance contained in their development and application between the inputs of technical expertise and local involvement, and the structured nature of the CHASP review process itself. A model is proposed of how the CHASP standards and review process could be fruitfully used in Papua New Guinea to improve the quality of rural health care delivery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Freeman
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003154:Community Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010219:Papua New Guinea; D010380:Peer Review; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012955:Societies, Medical