background and purpose: social accountability, a concept which is in the focal attention more than ever, is to provide service in the field of medical sciences. we aimed to identify the educational challenges to train accountable graduates in the medical education system to meet social needs. methods: this study was conducted by qualitative content analysis using in-depth semi-structured interv...

background and objectives: social security organization (sso) is the second largest organization to the ministry of health and medical education (mohme) in providing health care services in iran. in recent years the gap between the sso’s resources and expenditures has shown an unprecedented growing trend due to the rapidly increasing demand. continuation of this trend may lead to financial imba...

This article examines medical utilization patterns and attitudes toward the medical care system among the citizens of Russia's second largest city, St. Petersburg. It focuses upon the extent to which both attitudes towards and usage of medical care institutions have changed in the immediate post-Soviet period. A particular concern has been to determine the degree to which utilization and percep...

a ttitude among urmia medical university health workers about patient safety     khalilzadeh h [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, mohaddesi h [3] , zare fazlollahi z [4]     received: 17 jun , 2013 accepted: 14 aug , 2013     abstract   background & aims : today, patient safety is a critical factor in the quality of health care. the main problem of health care providers in improving their quality...

introduction: systems-based practice (sbp) is one of the six competencies introduced by the acgme for physicians to provide high quality of care and also the most challenging of them in performance, training, and evaluation of medical students. this concept analysis clarifies the concept of sbp by identifying its components to make it possible to differentiate it from other similar concepts. fo...

introduction: the current literature supports the inclusion of inter-professional education in healthcare education. changes in the structure and nature of the integrated medical education and healthcare system provide some opportunities for interprofessional education among various professions. this study is an attempt to determine the perceptions of students and faculty members about interpro...

China has gone through a comprehensive health care insurance reform since 2003 and achieved universal health insurance coverage in 2011. The new health care insurance system provides China with a huge opportunity for the development of health care and medical research when its rich medical resources are fully unfolded. In this study, we review the Chinese health care system and its implication ...

Background Satisfaction evaluation is a good way to assess hospital conditions. In Health Care System, parentscan be also as children's main supporters, thus they may act as patient's viewpoints' representatives.This study aimed to evaluate mother’s satisfaction of hospital care in hematology – oncology ward in Dr Sheikh hospital. Materials and Methods A Cross-sectional descriptive analytic stu...

introduction: the internal evaluation is a process to improve the quality of the education using the collection and judgment of data. considering some principles about educational measurement and data collection causes better recognizing of this process. in this study, we conducted the internal evaluation of department of health care management, school of allied medical sciences in tehran unive...