Managing the Quality of Health Care in Developing Countries
- ISBN-10
- 0821330926
- ISBN-13
- 9780821330920
- Category
- Health planning
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Author
- Willy De Geyndt
Description
World Bank Technical Paper No. 258. Quality of health care is a complex concept interwoven with value judgments about what constitutes good quality. This lack of linearity partly explains the large number of definitions of the concept of quality an
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