This research concentrates on the spatial accessibility assessment to healthcare facilities. Specifically, in doing so it compares situation urban and rural areas. In many countries, health inequalities continue be a major public challenge. Furthermore, there is also urbanization that occurs when people move from areas It leads an increase population extent of Driven by growth, cities low middl...

OBJECTIVES We examined the extent to which schools in the United States have health-promoting policies, programs, and facilities. METHODS We analyzed data from the School Health Policies and Programs Study 2000. RESULTS We found that public schools (vs private and Catholic schools), urban schools (vs rural and suburban schools), and schools with larger enrollments (vs smaller schools) had m...

1171 urban general practices in East and West Malaysia were compared regarding their service profiles and practice facilities. In general, practices in both parts put important emphasis on preventive health care. More practices in East Malaysia were providing hormone replacement therapy and sexually transmitted diseases services but less were providing intrapartum care, counselling services inc...

with the advent of digitalization, information and communications technology facilities have become an indispensable part of education especially at the universities. this study has been undertaken with dual purposes - to find the existing scenario of information and communications technology facilities and to gauge the perception of the students onthe quality of those facilities - at the unive...

BACKGROUND Despite improvements in a number of health outcome indicators partly due to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Ghana is unlikely to attain all its health-related millennium development goals before the end of 2015. Inefficient use of available limited resources has been cited as a contributory factor for this predicament. This study sought to explore efficiency levels of NH...

Urban malaria is considered a major public health problem in Africa. The malaria vector is well adapted in urban settings and autochthonous malaria has increased. Antimalarial treatments prescribed presumptively or after rapid diagnostic tests are also highly used in urban settings. Furthermore, health care strategies for urban malaria must comply with heterogeneous neighbourhood ecosystems whe...

BACKGROUND Considerable attention has been given by policy makers and researchers to the human resources for health crisis in Africa. However, little attention has been paid to quantifying health facility-level trends in health worker numbers, distribution and workload, despite growing demands on health workers due to the availability of new funds for HIV/AIDS control scale-up. This study analy...

OBJECTIVES To compare availability, cost, affordability and sources of anti-diabetic drugs between private and public health facilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. DESIGN Cross sectional descriptive study. SETTING Diabetic clinics in private and public health facilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. SUBJECTS Eighty patients randomly selected and 45 health facility personnel staff working in...