As e-commerce and online pharmacies (OPs) arose, the potential impact of the Internet on the world of health shifted from merely the spread of information to a real opportunity to acquire health services directly. Aim of the study was to investigate the offer of prescription drugs in OPs, analysing their characteristics, using the content analysis method. The research performed using the Google...

Objectives: Pharmacists’ responsibilities have become more patient-oriented so exploring patients’ satisfaction would lead to identifying and improving the quality of pharmaceutical services. The aim present study was assess with services in Jordan
 Methods: A cross-sectional conducted between December 2018 April 2019. Patients’ assessed using three subscales; managing therapy, interperson...

s health minister of nearly six years, retired from politics at the age of 45. In retiring early, Dr Wooldridge fulfilled his own longstanding prediction that the health portfolio would be his political graveyard, and in this he shared the fate of most Australian health ministers over the past 30 years. It seems that, in Australia, there is little chance of life in politics after health and the...

The emerging location-detection devices together with ubiquitous connectivity have enabled a large variety of locationbased services (LBS). Location-based services are becoming popular for mobile users. The mobile users’ location plays a key role to provide the service from one side, but it can be considered as a dimension of their privacy and so necessary to keep it anonymous to the other part...

A business-practice model is a guide, or toolkit, to assist managers and clinical pharmacy practitioners in the exploration, proposal, development and implementation of new clinical pharmacy services and/or the enhancement of existing services. This document was developed by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Task Force on Ambulatory Practice to assist clinical pharmacy practitioners and...

BACKGROUND In 2003 Ghana introduced a social health insurance scheme which resulted in the separation of purchasing of health services by the health insurance authority on the one hand and the provision of health services by hospitals at the other side of the spectrum. This separation has a lot of implications for managing accredited hospitals. This paper examines whether decoupling purchasing ...

To cite: Quilliam S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:142–144. BACKGROUND To bridge the gap – that’s what my brief for the Journal has always been. To create understanding between reproductive health professionals and health service consumers – to help the former appreciate the needs of the latter. This is why I often base my columns directly on the experiences of end-users: women patient...