At the Center for Health System Sustainability (CHeSS), we help countries learn from one another to optimize patient care and build resilient and sustainable health systems. We do so by leveraging patient-level data and global partnerships to produce comparative data insights and actionable policy recommendations.
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CHeSS: A new center at Brown to study health care systems across countries
A discussion comparing health policy challenges facing the U.S. to those faced by other high-income countries illustrated how the Center for Health System Sustainability aims to improve health care systems through research.
Using satisfaction ratings without nuanced approaches in value-based purchasing programmes may mask poor-quality interpersonal services, particularly for historically marginalized patients. Surveys should be designed to accurately capture true levels of dissatisfaction, ensuring that patient concerns are not hidden.
The articles in this issue highlight the importance of regular health systems performance assessment to inform policies that advance progress on health system objectives globally, and offer insights on associated data, methods and applications.
Heterogeneity in national SARS-CoV-2 infection surveillance capabilities may compromise global enumeration and tracking of COVID-19 cases and deaths and bias analyses of the pandemic’s tolls. Taking account of heterogeneity in data completeness may thus help clarify analyses of the relationship between COVID-19 outcomes and standard preparedness measures. Results support the pre-pandemic hypothesis that countries with greater pandemic preparedness capacities have larger SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality data completeness rates and lower COVID-19 disease burdens. More high-quality data of COVID-19 impact based on direct measurement are needed.
Harmonizing International Health Data for Better Outcomes
Professor Irene Papanicolas joins Megan Hall on the Humans in Public Health podcast to discussed her work: she aims to standardize data from across global health systems and compare them in order to inform policy choices and improve health care value and patient care.