Giaedi argues that employing an electronic medical record system may be the one solution that will addresses almost all problems. This is true, but in developing countries, most of the obstacles lie against preparing the health system for electronic services. In other words, the electronic health system has the potential to provide solutions to a lot of problems only if it works, and it works o...

Background Despite recommendations from the World Health Organization in most Asian countries, young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs are poorly provided and understood. The aim of this review paper is identifying barriers as well as improving strategies to access SRH information and services among Asian youth. Materials and M...

General practitioners (GPs) and health authorities have integral roles in assessing the needs of their local populations and providing services to meet these needs (Pearson et al, 1996). This requires current information on the incidence and prevalence of disease in general practice, and not surprisingly the demand for this information has increased. In settings such as the UK (CPRD, 2013), Net...

Recent attention to gaps and inadequacies in U.S. community mental health systems has revived efforts to improve access and the quality of mental health care to underserved, diverse, rural, and seriously mentally ill populations. The importance of elements such as evidence-based practice importation, needs assessment and evaluation, and mental health care disparities in this effort calls for in...

Organisations demand new business models for value creation and innovation that require collaboration with customers and vendors in agile and flexible networks. To realise such networks, organisations are embracing service oriented models and architectures using e-services for business communication. A major issue for a service oriented organisation is to design and offer e-services that are ad...

"PRECISE determination of the optimal allocation of resources within the health service, and between the health service and other wants of society, may be impossible. But to think in terms of optimal allocation, instead of 'meeting needs,' will produce better decisions." This is a quotation fronm a critical review (Feldstein, 1963) of the recent Nuffield study of operational research in the hea...

Clinicians have been divided in their views on whether systematic needs assessment leads to an improvement in the outcome of care for people with chronic mental illness. Policy makers assume that assessment and evaluation will improve the clinical and cost-effectiveness of mental health services. Many of these assumptions are already embedded within mental health policy and practice. A decade o...

continuous care team has a significant role in the treatment of chronic psychiatric patients and hence mental health services. this article retrospectively studied 55 patients of continuous care system at the shahid esmaily psychiatric center. results showed that compared to three years before intervention, during three years post intervention relapse rates, days of hospitalization (90%) and co...