An Integrated Chronic Disease Management Model- A diagonal approach to health system strengthening

Health System Financial Supply Chain Management with System Dynamics Approach: An Integrated Review

Introduction: Financing, creating resources, delivering services, and stewardship are the four main tasks of the health system, and achieving these goals is the main indicator of an efficient and fair health system. The present study was conducted to investigate the model of the management of the financing chain of the health system with the approach of system dynamics. Methods: In this integra...

An Approach to Management of Health Care and Medical Diagnosis Using of a Hybrid Disease Diagnosis System

Introduction: In order to simplify the information exchange within the medical diagnosis process, a collaborative software agent’s framework is presented. The purpose of the framework is to allow the automated information exchange between different medicine specialists. Methods: This study presented architecture of a hybrid disease diagnosis system. The architecture employed a learning...

Quebec Integrated Chronic Disease Surveillance System (QICDSS), an innovative approach.

INTRODUCTION With the growing burden of chronic diseases, surveillance will play an essential role in improving their prevention and control. The Institut national de santé publique du Québec has developed an innovative chronic disease surveillance system, the Quebec Integrated Chronic Disease Surveillance System (QICDSS). We discuss the primary features, strengths and limitations of this syste...

Use of a Diagonal Approach to Health System Strengthening and Measles Elimination after a Large Nationwide Outbreak in Mongolia

Measles is a highly transmissible infectious disease that causes serious illness and death worldwide. Efforts to eliminate measles through achieving high immunization coverage, well-performing surveillance systems, and rapid and effective outbreak response mechanisms while strategically engaging and strengthening health systems have been termed a diagonal approach. In March 2015, a large nation...

Health Management Mentoring for Health Systems Strengthening: A Response to Recent Commentaries