PURPOSE This article provides a rationale for developing an integrated data system for recording vision screening and eye care follow-up outcomes in preschool-aged children. The recommendations were developed by the National Expert Panel to the National Center for Children's Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness and funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and...

Outline of selected ones among a number of nationwide surveys related to health and welfare services (90 surveys as of 1995) conducted mainly by the Ministry of Health and Welfare periodically in Japan is described. That is, history, purpose, coverage, date, contents, data collection procedure, tabulation and publication were explained in regard to : (1) Population Census, (2) Vital Statistics,...

More than a hundred years after its foundation, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report called To err is human: building a safer health system, stating that between 44 thousand and 98 thousand patients die every year in the United States due to potentially preventable medical errors(1). With the intention of improving quality of healthcare and, as a consequence, decreasing the rates ...

World Wide Web acts as one of the major sources of information for health related questions. However, often, there are multiple conflicting answers to a single question and it is hard to come up with “a single best correct answer”. Therefore, it is highly desirable to identify conflicting perspectives about a particular question (or topic). In this paper, we have described our participation in ...

in 2014, a series of reforms, called as the health sector evolution plan (hsep), was launched in the health system of iran in a stepwise process. hsep was mainly based on the fifth 5-year health development national strategies (2011-2016). it included different interventions to: increase population coverage of basic health insurance, increase quality of care in the ministry of health and medica...

Developing countries and the global network of donors, programs and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have agreed that health systems need to become stronger if gains in health are to be achieved and sustained. Existing data collection and use is fragmented, disease specific, inconsistent and often of poor quality. Major factors contributing to the current situation are that the burden of da...

trauma is the fourth cause of death at all age groups with socio-economic costs which caused more than 6 million deaths in the world in 2000. despite promising trend in improving many aspects of health case and treatment in the last decade in our country, little attention has been paid to the subject of registering trauma on an international standard. effective practical research specially in q...