nearly three decades ago, the master of public health (mph) academic degree was introduced to tehran university of medical sciences' school of public health, tehran, iran. a new program for simultaneous education of medical, pharmaceutical and dental students was initiated in 2006. talented students had the opportunity to study mph simultaneously. there were some concerns about this kind of adm...

background: some congenital defects can be prevented in the pregestational stage. however, many health professionals are not prepared to provide counselling to couples regarding the same. objective: this study aimed to assess the performance of doctors and nurses from a primary health-care unit in florianopolis, brazil, in preventing birth defects in the preconception period based on the recomm...

we need effective leadership for provision of enough resources in public health. recent report of medical institution about public health future include excellent advises for community health nurses activities. in this report not only numerous successes of public health have been identified but also methods which public health leaders can use to complete their mission in community have been exp...

background health expenditures are divided in two parts of public and private health expenditures. public health expenditures contain social security spending, taxing to private and public sectors, and foreign resources like loans and subventions. on the other hand, private health expenditures contain out of pocket expenditures and private insurances. each of these has different effects on the ...

background: the present paper focuses on approaching the context and the actual manner of applying a method, known to be efficient and with a solid scientific background, on the institutional level of healthcare in romania. methods: the analyses and correlations developed by the author have taken into account the latest editions of the journals and publications of these institutions, such as st...

objectives: a public health course has an important role in theundergraduate education of pharmacy and dentistry in termsof emphasizing preventive care. the purpose of this study is toevaluate the views of pharmacy and dentistry students on a publichealth course and preventive health care.methods: 173 students enrolled at ege university, facultiesof pharmacy and dentistry completed a swot (stre...

background: the lack of satisfaction and balance between the workload and abilities and limitations of individuals in various occupations may influence their general health. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of workload and job satisfaction on the general health of industrial workers.   materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional and correlational study on 215 workers of a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the Food and Health Dialogue (the Dialogue), established by the Australian Government in 2009, is having an impact on reducing premature death and disability caused by poor diet in Australia. DESIGN AND SETTING We used information derived from the Dialogue website, media releases, communiqués and e-newsletters to evaluate the Dialogue's achievements from October ...

in spite of all the progress and achievements in the establish meat and development of health services in the world to date there is still a great and urgent need for new system of delivery of health and medical care particularly in developing counties. until now universities and medical institutions have been training high level professional personnel for delivery of hospital based medicaid ca...

this paper focus on the impact on the performance of health workers at village and township levels in the provision of a government stipulated package of basic public health service, which adopted the performance-related contracts mode.the concept of balanced scorecard was adopted and developed to gather the 11 evaluation indicators distributed in four quadrants. these were implemented using on...