Every perioperative department could benefit from having an information system that facilitates managerial function and improves efficiency in the OR. The Patient Advancement Monitoring System-Surgical implemented in a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, is one such a system that uses radio-frequency identification technology for tracking perioperative care of patients along workflow checkpoints. This ...

The article analyzes the incidence of COVID-19 and complications after disease, especially in terms mental health world’s population. purpose study was to analyze changes population Ukraine transfer determine resources professionals field health, summarize most common complaints that arose during identify compliance with quarantine measures duration treatment as hospital at home, systematizatio...

INTRODUCTION Planning human resources for health (HRH) is a complex process for policy-makers and, as a result, many countries worldwide swing from surplus to shortage. In-depth case studies can help appraising the challenges encountered and the solutions implemented. This paper has two objectives: to identify the key challenges in HRH planning in Belgium and to formulate recommendations for an...

With up to 50% of individuals in the “developed” world and up to 85% in the “developing” world assessed to have mental health problems but receiving no treatment (1), inevitable questions arise about the reasons for the gap. There are standard explanations – issues of access, cost and manpower; issues of mental health literacy or lack thereof; and of course, the large set of issues of prejudice...

Community medicine in Canada has its origin as a specialty in the 1970's and stems from a long and honourable tradition in public health practice which is now outmoded and no longer meets the significant challenges that face contemporary society. The forces that prompted the need for rethinking and reshaping can be traced to several events viz, deemphasis of institutional health care; avoidance...

Primary Care and Public Health: A Strategic Priority Why is the integration of primary care and public health important and timely? Several landmark reports, including the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Primary Care: America’s Health in a New Era and The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century clearly identified the need to bridge the chasm between primary care and public health. Further...

Midwives are primarily considered as professionals with expertise in assisting women before, during, and after childbirth. Thus, the competencies for midwifery defined by International Confederation of revolve principally around assessment provision care to fetus/newborn/infant during pre-pregnancy antenatal periods, laborand birth, postnatal/postpartum periods.1 The availability skilled midwiv...

this survey was carried out on children less than five years of age from rural areas of three provinces in iran (west azarbaijan, bushehre, and central province), with different health care delivery systems and various types of immunization scheme, to determine the immune status of measles and the vaccine coverage. our results indicate that the rates of measles immunity and vaccine coverage for...

BACKGROUND Information prescriptions (IPs) are prescriptions of specific, evidence-based information to manage health problems. OBJECTIVE To determine whether a pediatrician-provided IP would change parents' attitudes/behaviors about using Internet health information resources. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS We conducted a randomized controlled trial of parents visiting an academic gener...