background: pre-pregnancy care is considered as the services assessing and reducing the pregnancy risks through providing medical care and mental support. therefore, a pre-pregnancy counseling protocol was prepared based on a series of guidelines. this study aimed to determine the effect of the protocol on pregnancy and labor indices. methods: this was a four-phase field study conducted in four...

background and aim: job satisfaction represents individuals' positive or negative attitude towards their occupation. job satisfaction is of high significance in health care field and could affects the quality of patients' health care and satisfaction. every organization should pay considerable attention to job satisfaction and performance and continually monitor these indices. therefo...

This article presents the data about the accessibility of primary health care in Siauliai region and about factors related to the patients' perceived access to primary care. The survey was carried out in June 2004, in the context of a joint project of Kaunas University of Medicine and NIVEL, the Netherlands Institute of Health services research. Patients, treated in private and public health ca...

Executive Summary This issue of Research Briefs examines health centers' role in reducing disparities in preventive health care access by medically vulnerable and high risk populations. The analysis uses information from several national data sources to examine differences in the provision of preventive health care to Medicaid and uninsured patients between health centers and other primary care...

Academic health centers operate simultaneously in the highly intellectual world of academia and the highly competitive world of health care delivery. As a result of this unique operating circumstance, health care reform will likely exert unique impacts on academic health centers relative to community hospitals and independent providers. This discussion focuses on health care reform from the per...

Background Death of a child with cancer is one of the most painful events that results in traumatic reactions of bereavement. Care should be taken into account during the bereavement period. The present study aimed to develop bereavement care in Iran and comparing it with Jordan, England, Australia and Canada, which have achieved the desired situation in the above area. Materials and Methods In...

BACKGROUND The quality of social and emotional wellbeing services for Indigenous families of young children is not known, in many settings especially services provided by primary care centers. METHODS Our primary objective was to assess delivery of social and emotional wellbeing services to the families of young (3-11 months) and older (12-59 months) Indigenous children attending primary care...