Sustainable environmental management is of great concern due to rapidly growing number of health care institutions in Nepal. It is mandatory to regulate and develop a practice for impact assessment due to establishment and operation of health care facilities of Nepal through user's friendly procedure. This study was carried out to review Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) process and to re...

Understanding what drives households to seek medical services is challenging because the factors affecting the perceived benefits and costs of professional health care can be the same. In this paper, we disentangle the channels through which different factors affect the use of medical services, whether through perceived benefits and/or costs. We do this by exploiting data on why individuals hav...

BACKGROUND One of the main and basic pillars of health system promotion is the equitable distribution of health facilities in order to ensure fair access of people in the community to the health services. The goal of this study was to classify the health structural indicators in Golestan Province using Scalogram analysis model. METHOD A descriptive study was conducted in 2010. Data related to...

Integrating these services should improve the overall care an individual receives at a facility. As health care facilities increasingly offer integrated health care packages, all the products required for provision of these services need to be available. Historically, this has contributed to an understanding of integration as putting all products together on one truck. However, integration is n...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Growing health care demands, the uneven distribution of requirements for highly specialised services and the limits to the resources available to ensure an adequate response to the health care demands all make clear the managerial and macroeconomic need to adapt the organizational set-up of the health care facilities, redistributing the productive activities and care s...

The PMHP provides mental health services for pregnant and postnatal women, train those who work with mothers to improve the quality of their care, form partnerships to promote the scale up of services and inform local and global interventions through robust research and advocacy. We support state agencies and partner with non-profit organisations to achieve health and social development objecti...

Improving access to the formal health care sector is a primary public health goal in many low-income countries. But the returns to this access are unclear, given that the quality of care at public health facilities is often considered inadequate. We exploit temporal and geographic variation in the cost of traveling to formal sector health facilities to show that treatment at these facilities im...

Are you a nurse leader or professional development practitioner in a health care facility? This article provides recommendations to promote quality and safety education with a focus on systems thinking awareness among direct care nurses. A key point is error prevention, which requires a shared effort among all nurses. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2017;48(7):295-297.

JCPH – Vol. 67, no 5 – septembre–octobre 2014 400 of Medicinal Products in Healthcare Establishments [2014; www.picscheme.org/ publication.php?id=8]) and the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP). Best practice and current literature are incorporated into all areas of the new CSHP guidelines. It should be noted that this document is not simply a Canadian version of the USP’s General Chap...

BACKGROUND Many sub-Saharan countries, including Ghana, have introduced policies to provide free medical care to pregnant women. The impact of these policies, particularly on access to health services among the poor, has not been evaluated using rigorous methods, and so the empirical basis for defending these policies is weak. In Ghana, a recent report also cast doubt on the current mechanism o...