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Giving quality healthcare can help save 3 out of 5 lives per year: Study
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1. “The Lancet” Report raised serious concerns over poor quality of public healthcare
Important Facts:
2. According to the report, giving quality healthcare can help save 3 out of 5 lives per year.
3. Issue
- Providing health services without guaranteeing a minimum level of quality is ineffective, wasteful, and unethical.
- The human right to health is meaningless without good quality care.
4. The Lancet analysed data from more than 18 countries
5. Important Findings of the Research
Poor quality healthcare is responsible for a greater number of deaths than insufficient access to care.
Poor quality care amounts to 60% of death in Public health system
It includes 84% of cardiovascular deaths, 81% of vaccine preventable diseases, 61% of neonatal conditions and half of maternal, road injury, tuberculosis, HIV and other infectious disease deaths.
6. The Research also highlighted Poor quality of care in Indian Health care system
- 16 Million deaths in 2016 were due to poor quality healthcare system, out which half mortality is due to non-utilisation of healthcare system
- One-third of people reported poor experiences
- over half of the households avoided their nearby public health facility due to quality concerns
- mothers and children receive less than half of recommended clinical actions during a hospital visit,
- less than half of suspected cases of tuberculosis are correctly managed,
- Less than one in ten people diagnosed with major depressive disorder receive minimally adequate treatment.
- Diagnoses are frequently incorrect for serious conditions such as pneumonia, myocardial infarction and newborn asphyxia
