background : despite an increased need, residents of rural communities have decreased access to healthcare and often present unique healthcare challenges associated with their rurality. ensuring medical students receive adequate exposure to these issues is complicated by the urban location of most medical schools. health fairs (fairs) conducted in rural communities can provide students exposure...

 This study separates the more predictable health care expenses in retirement for older Americans (ages 65 and above) from the less predictable ones. Based on utilization patterns and expenses, doctor visits, dentist visits and usage of prescription drugs are categorized as recurring health care services. Overnight hospital stays, overnight nursing-home stays, outpatient surgery, home health c...

Abstract Pharmaceutical services are health in hospitals that expected to meet minimum service standards (SPM) an effort improve the quality of patients. One pharmaceutical categories standard is waiting time for prescription form nonconcoction drugs grace period from patient submits a receiving non-concoction with set by Ministry Health ≤ 30 minutes, whereas concoction until drug 60 minutes. T...

AIM The purpose of this research is to investigate the patient's satisfaction (patient's satisfaction) with medical services provided in Outpatients' Departments of a Greek Anti-Cancer Hospital in morning and afternoon clinics. The assessment of patients and identification of factors that contribute to their satisfaction will highlight the organizational and operational problems of outpatient d...

The fundamental principle of the Malaysian healthcare system is that accessibility to health care should not be related to one's ability to pay, especially when involving sickness [1]. This is based on the Government's recognition that health represents human capital, which forms the central thrust to sustainable economic growth and development of the country. The Malaysian healthcare system ha...

background : performance of a health system is of great importance since it is the major means for improving health. until now, various methods have been proposed for assessing the performance of the health system. the method proposed by world health organization is based on three major goals of the health system: health improvement, accountability, and equity in financial contribution. equity ...

BACKGROUND Patient referrals to outpatient health services may affect both health outcomes and health expenditures. General practitioners (GP) have a crucial role in driving the use of outpatient services and recognizing factors which affect referrals is important for health managers and planners. OBJECTIVES We investigated patient- and physician-related determinants of patient referrals in a...

background: world health organization (who) defines three goals to assess the performance of a health system: the state of health, fairness in financial contribution and responsiveness. we assessed the responsiveness of health system for patients with diabetes in a defined population cohort in tehran, iran. methods: total responsiveness and eight domains (prompt attention, dignity, communicatio...

OBJECTIVE Racial and ethnic disparities in mental health service use have been identified as a major public health problem. However, the extent to which these disparities may be accounted for by other confounding sociodemographic or clinical predictors of service use (e.g., family income, functional impairment, caregiver strain) is relatively unexplored, especially for youth services. The goal ...

BACKGROUND China has a large population of children under 18 years of age, whose health is of great concern to the Chinese health care system. However, few studies have been conducted to analyze the factors associated with children's unnecessary health care utilization in China. The objective of this study is to provide some empirical evidence on this issue by investigating the role of parental...