title: Introducing quality assurance to health service delivery--some approaches from South Africa, Ghana and Kenya.
abstract: The following report combines the contributions of four health care professionals engaged in quality improvement activities in three different areas of Africa--Ghana in West Africa, Kenya in the East, and the Republic of South Africa. These reports provide current and vivid accounts of the impact of quality assurance and quality improvement activities on areas of change in each country's rapidly expanding health care system.
authors.affiliation: International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Cape Town, South Africa.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Whittaker
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Doyle
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Lynam
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D005869:Ghana; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013019:South Africa