the death of the english national health service (nhs) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. this article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

National Health Insurance system has been continuously revised due to rapid changes of society since its establishment, which caused gradual decrease of hospital income year by year, so all hospitals take the initiative to develop self-financed items to partially increase hospital incomes, thus it is crucial to develop assessment model of Health Management Center. The research adopts Fuzzy Anal...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the service needs and preferences of frequent emergency department users with mental health and addictions concerns who participated in a brief intensive case management intervention. METHODS We conducted semi-structured individual interviews with 20 frequent emergency department users with mental health and addictions challenges, 13 service providers in...

Background & Objective: Knowledge growth has been very rapid in recent years. Health centers can implement knowledge management in their organization to improve service quality, reduce costs and time, strengthen relationships among colleagues, and produce knowledge faster by reviewing barriers to knowledge management implementation at fasa health center. Material & Methodes: In this qualitativ...

universal health coverage in thailand: achievement and experiences learned doshmangir l1,2 (msc, phd), rashidian a3,4 (md, phd), bazyar m3* (msc, phd condidate) 1 department of health services management, iranian center of exellence in health management, tabriz university of medical sciences, tabriz, iran 2 tabriz health services management research center, tabriz university of medical sciences...

background decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. the current approach refl...

the purpose of this study was to explore the impacts of: knowledge management, senior managers, staff, technology, consensus, service customization, and integration, as the factors effecting customer relationship management (crm) implementation in parsian international hotels. in this study the population was composed of parsian hotels managers and experts. due to their small number (n=53), cen...

Health service management education programs emerged in the early 1980s in China as a result of changing demands on health service managers created by new directions in health policy. This paper reports on an evaluation of the Jiangsu-Victoria Health Management Training Program and discusses five of the main findings. Participants in the study believed that the Program has impacted positively o...