Serbia, as many countries in Eastern Europe, is in the process of reforming its health system in an effort to improve the efficiency and efficacy of health services and to achieve equal distribution of health resources. Representatives of Ministry of Health (MOH), Health Insurance Fund (HIF), and Institute of Public Health (IPH) articulated an overall health vision for the health sector in Serb...

Schools have been identified as ideal settings for health promotion (HP) among children, adolescents and school staff. Most European countries have established strategies to implement HP into their school system, however, little is known about these national strategies and how effective they have been. School HP implementation concerns processes of adoption, adaptation and operation of a comple...

Preface The global environment is changing due to human and natural causes. The challenge of understanding global environmental change and of providing the policy-relevant knowledge base required by societies to deal with this change reaches across many aspects of scientific endeavour. Research combines observations, process studies, manipulative experiments and modelling, to improve the capabi...

background: the family physician plan has recently been implemented in three provinces of iran on a pilot basis and is going to be implemented throughout iran in the future. through a qualitative design, this study aims to determine probable implementation challenges of family physician plan in kerman. methods: this study was conducted in kerman in 2013. data were collected through interviews w...

DEFINITIONS C ontrolling the spread of a communicable disease in a community requires a multifaceted approach that includes traditional epidemiology, education of medical providers and the public, and provision of treatment and prophylaxis, if available. Specific conditions may dictate the need for more extensive control measures designed to limit contact between persons who are (or may be) con...