title: Quality Of Health Care In India: Challenges, Priorities, And The Road Ahead.
abstract: India's health care sector provides a wide range of quality of care, from globally acclaimed hospitals to facilities that deliver care of unacceptably low quality. Efforts to improve the quality of care are particularly challenged by the lack of reliable data on quality and by technical difficulties in measuring quality. Ongoing efforts in the public and private sectors aim to improve the quality of data, develop better measures and understanding of the quality of care, and develop innovative solutions to long-standing challenges. We summarize priorities and the challenges faced by efforts to improve the quality of care. We also highlight lessons learned from recent efforts to measure and improve that quality, based on the articles on quality of care in India that are published in this issue of Health Affairs The rapidly changing profile of diseases in India and rising chronic disease burden make it urgent for state and central governments to collaborate with researchers and agencies that implement programs to improve health care to further the quality agenda.
authors.affiliation: Manoj Mohanan (manoj.mohanan@duke.edu) is an assistant professor of public policy and economics in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, an assistant research professor at the Duke Global Health Institute, and faculty research scholar at the Duke Population Research Institute, all in Durham, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Manoj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mohanan
authors.affiliation: Katherine Hay is deputy director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation India, in New Delhi.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hay
authors.affiliation: Nachiket Mor is director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation India.
authors.forename: Nachiket
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mor
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D017149:Private Sector / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D017150:Public Sector / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*
keywords: India; International/global health studies; Measurement; Quality Improvement; Quality Of Care