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Through this thesis, we have explored the potential of the learning organization concept to create an organizational dynamic towards creativity and excellence in health organizations. Ministries of health can benefit from applying these attributes to meet the challenge of universal health coverage. This thesis helped to provide a state of knowledge on this concept through a structured review and allowed to examine its feasibility in the context of countries like Morocco to guide health policies with organizational learning processes. The results of this research showed the positive benefit the Ministry of Health can make by adopting the attributes of a learning organization. The adaptation of the analytical framework allowed us to facilitate reflection on a vision of what can be the adoption and application of this concept in the particular context of Morocco., (SP - Sciences de la santé publique) -- UCL, 2019

There is growing interest in the use of the management concept of a 'learning organisation'. The objective of this review is to explore work undertaken towards the application of this concept to the health sector in general and to reach the goal of universal health coverage in particular. Of interest are the exploration of evaluation frameworks and their application in health. Method: We used a scoping literature review based on the York methodology. We conducted an online search using selected keywords on some of the main databases on health science, selected websites and main reference books on learning organisations. We restricted the focus of our search on sources in the English language only. Inclusive and exclusive criteria were applied to arrive at a final list of articles, from which information was extracted and then selected and inserted in a chart. Results: We identified 263 articles and other documents from our search. From these, 50 articles were selected for a full analysis and 27 articles were used for the summary. The majority of the articles concerned hospital settings (15 articles, 55%). Seven articles (25%) were related to the application of the concept to the health centre setting. Four articles discussed the application of the concept to the health system (14%). Most of the applications involved high-income countries (21 articles, 78%), with only one article being related to a low-income country. We found 13 different frameworks that were applied to different health organisations. Conclusions: The scoping review allowed us to assess applications of the learning organisation concept to the health sector to date. Such applications are still rare, but are increasingly being used. There is no uniform framework thus far, but convergence as for the dimensions that matter is increasing. Many methodological questions remain unanswered. We also identified a gap in terms of the use of this concept in low- and middle-income countries and to the he