Introduction: Present children are the investments of community in the future. Preparing children health which leads to the stability of community health, provided to accurate implementation of educational and health programs in the community and especially in mothers. So it is necessary to determine the relationship between parents' literacy with growth rate in children.   Materials and Method...

Department of Surgery, Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System and the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Health Care System and the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA; Office of Cancer Survivorship, Division...

This study aims to analyze studies that evaluated the performance of Primary Health Care (PHC) services by using the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool) under a worldwide user perspective. This is a systematic review that implemented the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) model, from the following databases: Lilacs, Medline, SciELO, PubMed and the Coo...

BACKGROUND Early infant HIV diagnosis (EID) coverage and uptake remains challenging. Point-of-care (POC) testing may improve access and turn-around-times, but, while several POC technologies are in development there are few data on their implementation in the field. METHODS We conducted an implementation study of the Alere q Detect POC system for EID at two public sector health facilities in ...

Introduction: Present children are the investments of community in the future. Preparing children health which leads to the stability of community health, provided to accurate implementation of educational and health programs in the community and especially in mothers. So it is necessary to determine the relationship between parents' literacy  with growth rate in children. Materials and Methods...

BACKGROUND Psychotic disorders are a group of severe mental disorders that cause considerable disability to sufferers and a high level of burden to families. In many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), traditional and faith healers are the main providers of care to affected persons. Even though frequently canvassed as desirable for improved care delivery, collaboration between these comple...

Institutional addresses 1 EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2 TNO (Netherlands Organisation of Applied Scientific Research) Life Style, Leiden, The Netherlands. 3 EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medi...

Policy Only knowledgeable health care industry representatives will be permitted access to the operating room at Southwest General Health Center (SWGHC) for the purpose of providing technical support during a surgical intervention. The presence of any health care industry representative in the OR must be justified by his or her contribution to positive patient outcome and is subject to approval...