WHEN ORIENTATION BEGINS AT the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, the initial welcome to first-year medical students is not from their dean, Robert Golden, MD. The first voices they hear as they begin their medical education are those of patients. The patients talk about their illnesses and the impact of these conditions not only on the population at large,...

PURPOSE We sought to project the number of primary care physicians required to meet US health care utilization needs through 2025 after passage of the Affordable Care Act. METHODS In this projection of workforce needs, we used the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to calculate the use of office-based primary care in 2008. We used US Census Bureau projections to account for demographic changes ...

OBJECTIVE To compare patient's assessment of primary care of medical institutions by structural type. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Primary care clinics where family physicians work in South Korea (nine private clinics, three health cooperative clinics, three public health center clinics and five teaching hospital clinics). We collected data by questionnaire survey from April 2007 t...

BACKGROUND Better health care among Canada's socioeconomically vulnerable versus America's has not been fully explained. We examined the effects of poverty, health insurance and the supply of primary care physicians on breast cancer care. METHODS We analyzed breast cancer data in Ontario (n = 950) and California (n = 6300) between 1996 and 2000 and followed until 2014. We obtained socioeconom...

the collection of data within the primary health care facilities in iran is essentially paper-based. it is focused on family’s health, monitoring of non-infectious and infectious diseases. clearly due to the paper-based nature of the tasks, timely decision making at most can be difficult if not impossible. as part of an on-going electronic health record implementation project at tehran universi...

background: suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of iranian ministry of health and medical education (mhme). the suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by primary health care (phc) network. the main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into phc network...

background : the aim of this study was to describe the coverage for cervical cancer screening among the visitors of a food exhibition in brussels, belgium and to describe the factors that affect their participation in the screening programs. methods : the participants aged between 25 and 64 years were recruited during a food exhibition at the brussels exhibition centre from 6 until 21 october 2...

introduction: infertility is a major problem in today´s medicine. infertility is known a health indicator and the right to infertility treatment is part of millennium development goal. the present study aimed to determine the risk factors of infertility, in women referred to both public and private health centers in ilam. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out among wome...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to examine the quality of patient-reported communication with their health care providers using data from a large, statewide survey of patients. We examine the relationship between patient's race and ethnicity, type of health care provider, site of and continuity in care, and the quality of patient-provider communication. METHODS We analyze data from th...