Sustainably Improving Health Care

Culture, Context and Quality in Health Sciences Research, Education, Leadership and Patient Care (Second book in a series of five)Sustainably Improving Health Care promotes the importance of integrating improvedcare outcomes, system performance, and professional development so that the future ofhealth-care advancement is creative and sustainable. It addresses the challenge of creating and nurturing a culture of continuous improvementthat is able to sustain and generate creative professional work for the improvement ofhealth care. Using real-world examples, the book succinctly reveals how the model can bepractically applied from a variety of different perspectives. 'This book makes the persuasive argument that well-intended efforts to redesignand reform health care will enjoy only short lives without the full commitment andengagement of the health-care worker - the product of the sustainability- and capacity-buildingengine of professional development.'Dave Davis MD, CCFP, FCFP, in the Foreword'This book is about amodel that has emergedfrom our own work, ourobservations of the work ofcolleagues and others, andour refl ections about therequirements for the futureof the continual improvementof health care. We exploreits origins, its content andmanifestations, and itsimplications, particularlyfor health professionalleaders interested in theongoing improvement ofhealth care. Form and vitalitydevelop in the model as itengages reality - the realityof trying to create culturesof sustainable, generativeapproaches to the ongoingimprovement of health care.'From the Preface