Health Promotions

Vijiji Tanzania has been doing Health Promotion for Dementia in Mbeya, Tanzania. Vijiji is using Community Engagement and Involvement Groups to advocate for the Risks Assessment of Cognitive Deterioration and Potential rescue of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.

Vijiji Tanzania has been using the 2024 Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care Report for the Health Promotion on Alzheimer's disease risk factors by education the people of Mbeya, Tanzania. The organization gave a structured education on maintaining the overall well-being of the people at risk, which can positively impact cognitive health. Vijiji Tanzania gave options in adopting healthy lifestyle choices like regular physical activity, a balanced diet, and social engagement, alongside managing existing health conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes.

Health System Reviews

Over the past four years, Vijiji Tanzania has been conducting a series of health system reviews for the rural health care access and policies on marginalized people. Vijiji Tanzania is now developing models of quality of care that underpin the measurement and improvement of health care quality in different health systems that affect the people in the rural areas. As Vijiji Tanzania is caring for quality in health there are lessons learnt from the reviews of health care quality.

Vijiji Tanzania seeks to answer the question of what caring for quality means for a modern health care system by identifying what policies and approaches work best in improving quality of care.

Despite differences in health care system priorities, and in how quality-improvement tools are designed and applied, a number of common approaches and shared challenges emerged across the Reviews of Health Care Quality from which Vijiji Tanzania has analyzed. The most important of these concerns is the transparency. Vijiji has emphasized that Institutions and hospitals should encourage, and where appropriate require, health systems and health care providers to be open about the effectiveness, safety and patient-centredness of care they provide.
More measures of patient outcomes are also needed - especially those reported by patients themselves. These should underpin standards, guidelines, incentives and innovations in service delivery. Greater transparency can lead to optimization of both quality and efficiency - twin objectives which reinforce, rather than subvert, each other. In practical terms, greater transparency and better performance can be supported by changes in where and how care is delivered; changes in the roles of patients and professionals; and employing tools such as data and incentives more effectively.

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