High-quality care in epidemiology encompasses several key components:
1. Effectiveness: Ensuring that healthcare services are based on scientific knowledge and evidence-based practices. 2. Efficiency: Maximizing resource utilization to deliver care without unnecessary waste. 3. Equity: Providing care that does not vary in quality due to personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. 4. Patient-Centeredness: Respecting and responding to individual patient preferences, needs, and values. 5. Timeliness: Reducing delays in receiving appropriate care. 6. Safety: Minimizing risks and harm to patients during the provision of healthcare services.
