Background: Recently, quality is a serious concern in development of organizations. There are various indicators to assess quality and the purpose of this study was to identify the main indicators for quality measurement of Iranian health centers.   Methods : This qualitative study was conducted in three stages: first, review of the literature was performed to identify different indicators fo...

A came easily to Hans Holbein the Younger. Son and student of master painter Hans Holbein the Elder, he showed extraordinary talent at a young age in his native Augsburg, a bustling commercial town in southern Germany. Fascination with Italian renaissance took him to Lombardy, where he studied the work of Leonardo da Vinci and the portraits of Lorenzo Lotto. While still a teen, Holbein moved to...

Maternal health is a major health priority for international agencies and the Ethiopian Government. Many low income countries including Ethiopia, made substantial improvements in maternal health achieving the Millennium Development Goal -5. According to World Health Organization estimation, maternal death decreased almost by half in the last 15 years globally (2). The last five demographic heal...

Abbt and Alderson remark ‘how little time we spend in general practice ... perhaps 8 weeks over an entire degree’ but at Imperial College London and probably at most other medical schools, this represents greater time allotted than for many other specialties. We suggest the focus in medical schools should shift towards improving the quality of general practice placements and promoting the integ...

BACKGROUND Two new sets of stratification indicators--family's material affluence and adolescent's personal social position- were compared with traditional indicators of familial social position based on parental occupation and education for their ability to detect health inequality among adolescents. METHODS Survey data were collected in the Adolescent Health and Lifestyle Survey in 2003 fro...

The Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System (CPSS) is a national health surveillance program of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The CPSS mandate is to monitor and report on key indicators of maternal, fetal and infant health. These indicators include both determinants and outcomes of perinatal health. Perinatal Health Indicators 2013 reports on 13 priority indicators using the most recent da...