background:child health improvement is one of the most important indexes in health programs among all countries. one of the eight millennium development goals for 2015 is reduction of child mortality. based on who recommendation integrated management of childhood illness (imci) is one of the most effective strategies to reduce under five mortality rates. in this study, we tried to compare knowl...

Ms. C'assidy former editor of Health Progress, is a St. Ijntis-based freelance writer and communications consultant. espite the affirmation that pain can be assessed, communicated, and controlled with relatively simple means, pain continues to be an over looked and neglec ted institutional problem nationwide," says Karen Knox, pain management advanced practice nurse, St. John Hospital and Medic...

Incomplete Risk Adjustment and Adverse Selection in the German Public Health Insurance System by Thomas Knaus and Robert Nuscheler The German statutory health insurance market was exposed to competition in 1996. To avoid adverse selection, a prospective risk compensation scheme was introduced in 1994. Due to their low contribution rates, company-based sickness funds were able to attract a lot o...

background: chronic illnesses are by definition long lasting and without a definitive cure. in iran, like in many other developing countries, chronic diseases are not merely diseases of the elderly. they also affect a much higher proportion of people during their prime working years and more so than in the developed countries. therefore, it is essential to understand the factors influencing the...