BACKGROUND Poor quality of health services and socio-cultural dynamics may severely limit utilization of health services. Facility health committees were established in several states in northern Nigeria to reduce these barriers. The committees were charged with mobilizing communities, improving quality of health services, and promoting utilization of maternal and child health services. This st...

“Ashley Smith was a fourteen-year-old placed in a youth facility for one month in 2003 after throwing crabapples at the mailman. Smith was placed in solitary confinement after disruptive behavior on her first day. Her initial onemonth sentence would last almost four years, almost entirely in isolation. Often violent and unpredictable, Smith exhibited many attempts at choking herself into uncons...

conclusions according to the present study, the potential barriers to the implementation of pacs in hospitals is the lack of knowledge of the managers and employees of the benefits of pacs system (80%). before the implementation of pacs systems in hospitals it must be considered necessary background to increase knowledge of the workers and managers in this regard, short-term in-service training...

This paper explores the relationship between doctor managers and senior health service administrators (CEOs or General Managers) within the context of Australian health reform. Government funding for health services has become increasingly driven by government defined measurable performance targets and resources. These policy changes have implications for hospitals to be managed more cost effec...

QUALITY PROBLEM OR ISSUE When the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan began reconstructing the health system in 2003, it faced serious challenges. Decades of war had severely damaged the health infrastructure and the country's ability to deliver health services. INITIAL ASSESSMENT A national health resources assessment in 2002 revealed huge structural and r...

BACKGROUND Although there is a general agreement on the importance of antenatal care to improve the maternal and perinatal health, little is known about its importance to improve health facility delivery in developing countries. The objective of this study was to assess the association of antenatal care with birth in health facility. METHODS A systematic review with meta-analysis of Mantel-Ha...

background and objectives: today, management is one of the most important factors in hospital effectiveness and performance. the objective of this study was to assess the management skills of administrators in hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences and to identify how these skills are related to effective management.   methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out o...

in the field of health losses resulting from failure to establish the facilities in a suitable location and the required number, beyond the cost and quality of service will result in an increase in mortality and the spread of diseases. so the facility location models have special importance in this area. in this paper, a successively inclusive hierarchical model for location of health centers i...

Health facility surveys come in various guises. One dimension in which they vary is their motivation. Some seek to understand better linkages between households and providers. Other seek to understand better provider behavior and performance. Others still seek to understand the interrelationships between providers, while yet others seek to shed light on the linkages between government and provi...

background: in many sub-saharan african countries the rate of antenatal care (anc) has been increased but skilled birth attendance rate is still low. the objective of this study was to evaluate the reasons why women prefer home delivery when facility based delivery is available at minimal cost. methods: this study was conducted in northwest nigeria using a qualitative method (phenomenology) amo...