BACKGROUND Home healthcare services are important in aging societies worldwide. The present nationwide study of health insurance data examined the utilization and delivery patterns, including diagnostic indications, for home healthcare services used by seniors in Taiwan. METHODS Patients ≥65 years of age who received home healthcare services during 2004 under the Taiwanese National Health Ins...

Since the implementation of free maternity services in South Africa from 1994, more maternity services were provided (SA, 1994: 73). These services are however inaccessible to many pregnant women in the rural areas, leading to sub-optimal antenatal health service utilization. Another problem that emerged, is deterioration in antenatal health service rendering throughout the country, as well as ...

Background Nursing homes fill a vital role in our society — caring for an increasingly frail population, especially for the indigent. About 98,000 mostly elderly Californians are cared for in more than 1,100 freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) at any given time. And demand for skilled nursing services will increase as baby boomers approach retirement age. California’s age 65-and-over...

Primary Argument Nursing has a rich heritage of advocating for a healthy society established on a foundation of social justice. The future legitimacy and success of public health nursing depends on recognising and appropriately addressing the social, economic and political determinants of health in the populations served. There is an incontrovertible association between population health status...

a comparative study of pregnancy outcomes after in vitro fertilization and spontaneous pregnancy in primigravida women admitted to the medical center of tehran -1391     amini l [1] , safaei z [2] * , jamshidi r [3] ,neisani samani l [4]     received: 17 jul, 2013 accepted: 22 sep , 2013    abstract  background & aims : pregnancy is one of the most important phases in women who are seeking a gr...