reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. adopted from the toyota production system (tps), the lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. in the context of health care, lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...

conclusions although the majority of women had pcc records and received advice from healthcare professionals to carry out pchbs, most of them did not adhere to the pchb guideline recommendations. it is therefore suggested that strategies should be adopted to establish pcc services in the healthcare system and encourage clients to adhere to the pchb guideline recommended by the ministry of healt...

BACKGROUND The length of stay and bed usage on acute psychogeriatric admission wards are influenced by several factors. The impact of a dedicated specialist social worker working exclusively with acutely ill psychogeriatric inpatients and with a dedicated budget for domiciliary care packages on the length of stay, bed usage, and costs was evaluated in an opportunistic "before and after" cohort ...

BACKGROUND Although chiropractors in the United States (US) have long suggested that their approach to managing spine pain is less costly than other health care providers (HCPs), it is unclear if available evidence supports this premise. METHODS A systematic review was conducted using a comprehensive search strategy to uncover studies that compared health care costs for patients with any type...

The Seniors Wellness Clinic: An Interprofessional Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Care Model Lina Medeiros, MSW, Social Worker, University Health Network Toronto Western Hospital,Toronto, ON. Debbie Kwan, MSc, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto; Pharmacist, University Health Network Toronto Western Hospital,Toronto, ON. Carol Banez, MAN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, University Hea...

The Inner South Community Health Service diabetes working group was convened in 2001 to improve the management of diabetes and develop a clear model of care for Inner South Community Health Service clients with diabetes. Early initiatives included developing a screening tool, a resource folder, staff training and a short term project to complete a needs analysis and propose a model of care. In ...

Health worker migration theories have tended to focus on labour market conditions as principal push or pull factors. The role of education systems in producing internationally oriented health workers has been less explored. In place of the traditional conceptual approaches to understanding health worker, especially nurse, migration, I advocate global political economy (GPE) as a perspective tha...

background in 2003 the afghan ministry of public health (moph) adopted the integrated management of childhood illness (imci) for delivering child health services in primary care facilities. key problems were subsequently identified: high cost of training, frequent health worker turnover and poor quality of imci implementation by those trained – specifically in the use of job aids and protocols ...