relationship between performance indicators and hospital evaluation score at hospitals affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences     sadeghifar j [1] , ashrafrezaee n [2] , hamouzadeh p* [3] , [4] , taghavi shahri sm [5] , shams l [6]    received: 19 feb, 2011 accepted: 20 june, 2011  abstract   background & aims: hospitals have a key role in providing health services as the main eleme...

Introduction According to the estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), the reproductive ill health accounts for 33% of the total disease burden in women as compared to 12.3% for men. Despite this significant figure, in many South Asian countries the magnitude of reproductive morbidity has not been adequately defined. Maternal health event provides enough time to take requisite precauti...

This paper assesses the role of social affiliation, measured by caste, in shaping investments in child health. The special setting that we have chosen for the analysis - tea estates in the South Indian High Range - allows us to control nonparametrically for differences in income, access to health services, and patterns of morbidity across low caste and high caste households. In this controlled ...