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CHS offers in-house writing, editing, and graphic design capabilities to create high quality technical and informational publications that meet or exceed client expectations. Selected publications may be downloaded as Adobe Acrobat .PDF files. (To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here or on the Acrobat Reader icon below).

In 2007, the Gates Foundation awarded the Diagnostic Test Cost Analysis for the Developing World project to URC's Center for Human Services (CHS) to research potential demand for diagnostic tests for disease areas that cause high burdens in the developing world: acute lower respiratory infection, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted infections. CHS conducted research to evaluate potential demand for new diagnostic tests and to identify factors that might affect that demand among consumers and within the public, private for-profit, and private nonprofit health sectors. The research includes six reports, one for each diagnostic included in the study. The case studies examine past experiences with introducing diagnostic tests as a way of smoothing the way for introduction of new diagnostics as they become available.

En el Camino del Alcohol las Muerte. These booklets were developed by the Pennsylvania Migratory and Seasonal Farmworkers with Disabilities Project. En el Camino del Alcohol hallaras la Muerte offers ideas and feelings on the consequences of alcohol abuse and importance of prevention. The narratives relate the students' experiences with alcohol. The images were created by the students to visually express their history. The art project was done under the guidance of the visiting artist Maria Barbosa and the art instructor at CHR, Robert Bass. A set of three complementary booklets was designed and produced by Maria Barbosa.

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION INTERVIEW: Frequently Asked Questions English to Spanish Translation Guide. This manual is designed to assist vocational rehabilitation counselors, and other medical personnel, conduct an initial interview with a limited English proficient individual whose native language is Spanish. No Spanish language ability on the part of the interviewer is assumed.

Prevention of High Risk Drinking among College Students

A brochure to be distributed to some 500 parents of students at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland is intended to encourage them to understand and take action to prevent and decrease the rate of high risk drinking among students. Download flyer.

Quality Assurance Project II

Technical Reports and Resource Materials

Sustaining Quality of Healthcare: Institutionalization of Quality Assurance. This monograph presents the framework the QA Project has developed to help health managers institutionalize quality assurance in developing country settings. The framework describes the elements necessary for institutionalizing quality of care and a road map of the process an organization would follow to sustain quality care.

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Health Manager's Guide: Monitoring the Quality of Hospital Care. Produced for the U.S. Agency for International Development Quality Assurance Project, this volume in the Health Manager's Guide series describes a systematic approach to implementing quality monitoring in a hospital. Case examples illustrate how to use each quality monitoring method, including collecting, using, and reporting data; setting standards and criteria; and using graphs, flowcharts, fishbone diagrams, and prioritization matrices.

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Issue Paper: The Use and Effect of Computer-Based Training. Produced for the U.S. Agency for International Development Quality Assurance Project, this volume in the Issue Paper series reviews current published and unpublished research on the effectiveness of computer-based training in health care. Special focus is made on its implementation in developing country settings.

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Quality Assurance Case Studies. Produced for the U.S. Agency for International Development Quality Assurance Project, the Case Study series presents real applications of quality assurance (QA) methods in maternal and reproductive health, child survival, and infectious disease programs in developing countries. Each case study focuses on one or more major QA activities, such as quality improvement, quality design, development of standards, and quality assessment.

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Quality Assurance Operations Research Summaries. Produced for the U.S. Agency for International Development Quality Assurance Project, the Operations Research Summary series offers two-page summaries of findings from Quality Assurance Project operations research studies on the application of quality assurance tools and techniques around the world.

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