Objectives Primary care is the first main interface of health services for the elderly to maintain and improve their health. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the appropriateness of the way to provide services for this population group, which is one of the most vulnerable classes of society. This study was conducted to explain the structural and functional challenges of comprehensive healt...

329 The issue of sub-specialization within a developing world setting has been raised as an issue for developing world psychiatrists. 1 The current editorial poses the question as to whether sub specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry are a luxury or a necessity. In a continent where over 50% of the population are children and adolescents and one in five will have a mental health problem...

There are significant issues associated with the use of restrictive measures, such as seclusion and restraint, in child and adolescent mental health care. Greater understanding of how restrictive measures are used is important for informing strategies to reduce their use. In this brief report we present a 12-month audit (1/1/2010-31/12/2011) of the use of restrictive measures (seclusion, physic...

conclusion according to the results of this study it is recommended that more attention be paid to improve mental health of students. results the mean age of participants was 16.5 (sd = 1.34) year. 50.2% of them were male. the mean ghq-score of all participants was 2.99 (sd = 2.5), and 35.4% of them obtained the cut of point score of ≥ 3.7. the mean ghq-scores of males and females were 3.27 (sd...

BACKGROUND Adolescents have significant sexual and reproductive health needs. However, complex legal frameworks, and social attitudes about adolescent sexuality, including the values of healthcare providers, govern adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health services. These laws and social attitudes are often antipathetic to sexual and gender minorities. Existing literature assumes that...

objective: there are disparities in mental health services (mhs) utilization within and between populations and several factors are studied as its potential correlates. identifying those correlates would help health policy makers to adjust service provision with characteristics of their community. to evaluate demographic, socioeconomic and system correlates of mhs utilization among married wome...

background and objectives: induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

Web service providers rely on the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) as the way to communicate information about an available service to a service requestor. This description or meta-data of the service is used by a service requestor to inspect the available interfaces and to access the service. In this paper, we argue that publishing a WSDL with a functional description of a service alone...