Sustaining access to healthcare in a resourcepoor setting is a key challenge in achieving global health.1 While there exist huge differences in healthcare systems between developing and developed countries, shortages of doctors and other health professionals in rural and remote areas are universal issues.2 In rural areas, both patient-specific and extrinsic factors affect access to healthcare.3...

Patients seek attention and treatments to various types of diseases and symptoms. Diseases infection and symptoms are often not predictive. Normally, there is a spread and movement of people across the geographical locations, of both the rural and urban communities, in countries including Namibia. As such, healthcare could be needed at any location, and at any time. There is significant mobilit...

BACKGROUND The use of maternal health services, known as an indirect indicator of perinatal death, is still unknown in Lubumbashi. The present study was therefore undertaken in order to determine the factors that influence the use of mother and child healthcare services in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. METHODS This was transversal study of women residing in Lubumbashi who had ...

Public health system in Bangladesh has been struggling to coverage and the utilisation of basic maternal healthcare services in pursuit of achieving maternal and child mortality related goals. Interestingly, the rapid popularization of mobile technology in the country is transforming the landscape of health care access and delivery. However, little is known regarding the use of mobile phones fr...

Among the many challenges facing populations disrupted by complex emergencies, personal security and food security rank much higher than access to healthcare. However, over time health needs assume increasing importance. Many complex crises occur in settings where the background incidence of TB is already high; social and economic conditions in crises are then highly conducive to amplification ...

Life is changing dramatically, market position as part of life is becoming more and more important, and marketing, considered a key cultural architect of nowadays that involves voluntary relation exchanges between the communicating partners, is placing the patient in the center of most adequate action towards the medical future which represents his life quality. We think that the moment has com...

Healthcare delivery is a highly complex process involving a broad range of healthcare services, typically performed by a number of geographically distributed and organizationally disparate healthcare providers requiring increased collaboration and coordination of their activities in order to provide shared and integrated care. Under an IT-enabled, patient-centric model, health systems can integ...

Healthcare is primarily delivered in the ambulatory care setting. The high variability in service delivery encountered in this environment negatively impacts efficiency, quality of care, costs, patient satisfaction and safety. Care coordination, a process to manage dependencies between clinicians who provide care to a patient, has been proposed as a critical and challenging step in improving ca...