background a number of developing countries have contracted out public health facilities to the non-government organizations (ngos) in order to improve service utilization. however, there is a paucity of in-depth qualitative information on barriers to access services as a result of contracting from service users’ perspective. the objective of this study was to explore perceived barriers to util...

Rehabilitation program is a critical piece of clinical care strategy in order to accelerate healing and improve quality of life to the fullest extent possible. An innovated program should have 3 inspiring concepts: Seek inspire and Advance. Seeking and evaluating is a breakthrough technology, innovative methodology and emerging trend in the healthcare industry. The program should inspire clinic...

a Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Correspondence to Ravi Narayan (email: [email protected]) The WHO South-East Asia Region was one of the crucibles for development of the primary health care (PHC) concept. The Bandung Conference on Rural Hygiene held in 1937 drew global attention, through the League of Nations Health Organizatio...

For more than half a century school health programs have undergone change and improvement. Beginning with efforts to control com-municable diseases, such programs now include many diverse but related activities requiring the cooperative efforts of physicians, dentists, nurses, teachers, and others. Specific procedures help to protect pupils from unhealthful environmental conditions. Considerati...