Background: It is difficult to provide health care services to all those in need of such services due to limited resources and unlimited demands. Thus, priority setting and rationing have to be applied. This study aimed at critically examining the concept of rationing in health sector and identifying its purposes, influencing factors, mechanisms, and outcomes.     Methods: The c...

VHA Office of Rural Health • Fact Sheet • Volume 3 Issue 4 IN THIS ISSUE:  Rural mental health care and redesigned primary care  Did You Know?  Mental Health Pathway Mental Health and Mental Health Care in Rural America: the Hope of Redesigned Primary Care “In the United States, most people with mental health issues or disorders remain untreated.” Rural populations have a greater portion ...

This research examined 1) the prevalence of substance use behaviors in college students, 2) gender and academic level as moderators of the associations between mental health problems and substance use, and 3) mental health service use among those with co-occurring frequent binge drinking and mental health problems. As part of the Healthy Minds Study, a probability sample of 2843 college student...

What do young people and families living with an eating disorder need from a public health service system? What do clinicians and services need to provide treatment, particularly family-based treatment? How do we go about creating a public health system which provides early, equitable and quality access to evidence-based treatment for young people? The first priority of the Victorian Centre of ...

The Statistics Approximately 70% of children and adolescents who are in need of treatment do not receive mental health services. Of those who seek treatment, only 1 in 5 children use mental health specialty services. Thus, approximately 75% to 85% fail to receive specialty services, and most of these children fail to receive any services at all. For the families that seek services, 40% to 50% t...

The main question addressed here is to what extent socioeconomic differences in the utilization of health services in the Netherlands can be explained by health status. Our aim is to assess whether the health services has achieved equal assess for equal needs, and which health status measures best control for need. Cross-sectional survey data from 2867 respondents with respect to utilization of...

Task Force Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends mental health benefits legislation, particularly comprehensive parity legislation, based on sufficient evidence of effectiveness in improving financial protection and increasing appropriate utilization of mental health services for people with mental health conditions. There is also evidence that mental health benefits l...

Background: Women in working life have received considerable attention in last few years, this appears to influence the health, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of women as manifested both in the work place and their family life. Global studies demonstrated that one of the major issues confronting women is health and SRH.The most important Priorities women at work place should be promotion ...

universal health coverage in thailand: achievement and experiences learned doshmangir l1,2 (msc, phd), rashidian a3,4 (md, phd), bazyar m3* (msc, phd condidate) 1 department of health services management, iranian center of exellence in health management, tabriz university of medical sciences, tabriz, iran 2 tabriz health services management research center, tabriz university of medical sciences...