Implementation science in humanitarian assistance: applying a novel approach for humanitarian care optimization.
Global health
Humanitarian assistance
Implementation science
Quality improvement
Journal
Implementation science : IS
ISSN: 1748-5908
Titre abrégé: Implement Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101258411
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
29 May 2024
29 May 2024
Historique:
received:
29
08
2023
accepted:
23
05
2024
medline:
30
5
2024
pubmed:
30
5
2024
entrez:
29
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Humanitarian assistance is hindered by a lack of strategies to optimize care delivery through research and organized networks. Distinct from global health, humanitarian assistance struggles to address its multifaceted challenges, including duplicative resources, uncoordinated communication, unregulated staff expertise and safety, financial waste, and poor-quality metrics and care delivery. Implementation science provides an exciting and underutilized approach that can be applied to address these challenges, by studying how to effectively design, implement, optimize, and scale evidence-based interventions. Though successful in well-resourced and global health systems, implementation science approaches are rare in humanitarian assistance. Adopting implementation science approaches including identifying determinants, creating accessible evidence-based intervention bundles, adapting study methodologies for the humanitarian context, and partnering with implementation experts could make these promising approaches more accessible for thousands of humanitarian actors delivering healthcare for millions of vulnerable patients worldwide.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38811981
doi: 10.1186/s13012-024-01367-7
pii: 10.1186/s13012-024-01367-7
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
38Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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