Survey of health department-based environmental epidemiology programs.

Internal Evaluation in the Department of Environmental Health Engineering of Qom University of Medical Sciences, 2017

Background and Objectives: The internal evaluation is the process of examining the status of the academic system by the faculty members themselves. This project aims to make educators and faculty members more aware of the department goals and to make appropriate planning for evaluation of the educational process of the department as well as improvement of quality of future activities. In this r...

Environmental epidemiology: An introduction

Health Based Standards: Epidemiology

Utilization of health insurance data in an environmental epidemiology

OBJECTIVES In South Korea, health insurance data are used as material for the health insurance of national whole subject. In general, health insurance data could be useful for estimating prevalence or incidence rate that is representative of the actual value in a population. The purpose of this study was to apply the concept of episode of care (EoC) in the utilization of health insurance data i...

Complementary health insurance, out- of- pocket expenditures, and health services utilization: A population- based survey

Background: Studies have shown that people using complementary health insurances have more access to health services than others. In the present study, we aimed at finding the differences between out- of- pocket payments and health service utilizations in complementary health insurances (CHIs) users and nonusers.    Methods:  Propensity score matching was used to compare the 2 g...