OBJECTIVE To summarize scholarly literature that describes practice, utilization, and/or policy of chiropractic services within international active duty and/or veteran health care environments. DATA SOURCES PubMed, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and the Index to Chiropractic Literature were searched from their starting dates through June 2009. REVIEW METHODS ...

This paper analyses the paradigm shift from the disease to the person with the disease against the background of the changes of health systems toward primary health care. The structural changes from hospital to the community and the specialist to the generalist approach are essential to enable this different approach. As a consequence, any assessment of health status, risks, and needs starts wi...

The adolescent patient is often inadequately provided for within current health care systems as they are generally considered to be a healthy population group1. Studies report that they are often infrequent users of primary health care services such as general practitioners (GPs)2,3. In order to improve health care for this group, adolescent perspectives of health care services should be consid...

This paper considers recent voluntary action in primary health care and focuses on community health initiatives, describes why they are important and how they may relate to general practice.

Read online: Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online. The Kenya Government’s Health Sector Strategic Plan for 2005 to 2010, whose theme was ‘Reversing the Trends’, introduced six health service delivery levels and gave prominence to community-based services at level 1. Community-based primary healthcare services are aimed at empowering Kenyan households and commu...

INTRODUCTION In countries where leprosy control is integrated to general heath services, health workers, at primary health care level, often manage a large number of patients with skin diseases including leprosy. The distinction of leprosy from others skin diseases requires more skill and attention. Basic dermatological knowledge will help these staff to provide a better quality of care. A few ...

OBJECTIVE Patient satisfaction with health care services is considered an important factor of health care. Although research on patient satisfaction has become standard in Western Europe, in countries such as Lithuania the concept of patient satisfaction is still a relatively new one. This study aimed to investigate how the meeting of patients' expectations is related to increased satisfaction ...

A research nurse interviewed 55 practice staff in 11 general practices to ascertain their views about their needs for occupational health care. In a second parallel study, a specialist in occupational medicine undertook an in-depth audit of occupational health provision in five other general practices with respect to the organization, the health and safety process, the services and the working ...

introduction: management is a specialized science and most of the health managers are not familiar with scientific management methods and direct their organization on the basis of their own experiences and assumptions, it is necessary to devise comprehensive educational programs according to the results of needs assessment in order to promote the quality of health care services. materials and m...