background the purpose of this study was to measure the level of quality of work life (qwl) among hospital employees in iran. additionally, it aimed to identify the factors that are critical to employees’ qwl. it also aimed to test a theoretical model of the relationship between employees’ qwl and their intention to leave the organisation. methods a survey study was conducted based on a sample ...

1Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; 3Department of Research and Development, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway; 4Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University ...

Mobile phones are considered to be the most common devices in history of humankind. They have involved in financial transaction such as mobile banking and mobile payment, which include sensitive information. Public key cryptography is the proven solution that can provide secure transaction at every point of interaction in mobile banking value chain. This paper proposes a need for peer-to-peer S...

BACKGROUND In August 2009, China formally established the National Essential Medicines System (NEMS) and implemented this system in the government-funded primary care medical and health institutions. After nearly four years of practice, the system has already been generalized to the county-level public hospitals. This study aimed to examine the impact on the operation of the hospitals through i...

Introduction: Medical tourism is one of the competitive and income industries in world and has the ability to attract tourists in the health sector and international markets are totally dependent on international accreditation. This study has been done to evaluate the capabilities of active public and private hospitals in Shiraz regarding attraction of tourists’ base on accredi...

objective: to clarify the principles of a safe delivery based on clinical governance criteria, as recommended by the pertinent experts. materials and methods: the current study was part of a qualitative research conducted by content analysis method in 2013 and purposive sampling, performing 24 in-depth interviews based on semi-structured questions and analyzed using thematic content analysis. t...