BACKGROUND Expansion of the health care workforce in Peru to combat tuberculosis (TB) includes both professional health care providers (HCPs) such as doctors and nurses, and non-professional HCPs such as community health workers (CHWs). We describe the knowledge and attitudes of these HCPs, and identify modifiable barriers to appropriate anti-tuberculosis treatment. METHODOLOGY We surveyed HC...

This study is an examination of the long-term coercive effect of state community benefit laws (CB Laws) on the provision of community health activities in U.S. acute care hospitals. The sample included all the not-for-profit and investor owned acute care hospitals for which 1994 and 2006 AHA Annual Survey data were available. A panel design was used to longitudinally examine the effect that sta...

• Objective: To assess process and outcome measures before and after a multifaceted intervention for patients hospitalized on the medical floor with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). • Setting and participants: 1054 patients with CAP admitted to 12 acute care community hospitals from March 1998 to February 2000 (baseline, n = 517) and from October 2000 to March 2001 (postinter-

There is a growing attention being placed on community networking and community informatics, due to the role both can play in building the Information Society. Hence, the issue of the sustainability of online communities becomes more and more relevant: multiple aspects – social, institutional and economical – have to be jointly analyzed to understand how and if a project is really worthwhile. I...

objectives: this paper reviews the current literature on acquired brain injury (abi) with a focus on abi burden, importance of community integration, and community integration definitions suggested by the literature. methods: literature review results: acquired brain injury (abi) is referred to a diverse range of disabilities resulted of injury in different parts of the brain. people with abi a...

objective: to assess the prevalence and practice of fertility regulation methods among remote ethiopian communities of the hamer district, southern ethiopia. materials and methods: community-based cross sectional study was conducted in hamer district of south regional state of ethiopia. the study populations were women of reproductive age group residing in the district and purposively identifie...

in a period of less than five decades, the urban residence has dramatically increased in iran. currently more than two thirds of the population live in city dwellings. this rapid urbanization has considerable impact on people’s mental health and psychiatric care. the main strategy of iran's national program of mental health has been the integration of mental health into the primary health ...

background: use of bed-net continues to offer potential strategy for malaria prevention in endemic areas. local communi­ties are indispensable during design and implementation stages. methods: a cross-sectional study of 192 randomly selected inhabitants was carried out in malarious zone, siahoo dire­strict, hormozgan province, southern iran. in addition, we monitored human landing periodicity o...

it is widely accepted in many parts of the world thatcommunity nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management. in china, however, it is not clear whether the chinese community nurses are able to assume disaster-related duties due to the lack of a systematic assessment.a pre-designed and well-tested questionnaire was employed to evaluate the competency in di...