BACKGROUND Recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals (HCPs) for rural areas is challenging throughout the world. Although rural origin HCPs have been identified as being the most likely to work in rural areas, only a small number of rural-origin South African scholars are trained as HCPs each year and many do not return to work in rural areas. AIM The aim of this article was to presen...

Accreditation, as an approach to quality assurance and improvement, has a hundred-year history in the United States. Other countries have started to establish such systems in the past twenty years. Recently, we have witnessed numerous discussions and some practical steps toward establishing accreditation systems in Iran. A major practical challenge for such newer accreditation systems is that...

HAT are the trends in health and welfare services in the United States? What are the most pressing needs? What are the areas that require a new emphasis, or need more careful consideration? Because social conditions in this country are undergoing constant and rapid change, it is important to review our welfare programs at intervals with such questions in mind. The most obvious trend that has de...

While a dairy cooperative provided the bylaws, managing a cooperative of rural hospitals has been a learn-as-you-go experience. This article presents the management principles that have been learned over the last 13 years. Its experience suggests that developing and managing partnerships requires behaviors different from those typically associated with the management of individual organizations.

By Surgeon-Major Herbert Greene, A.M.D. I shall in this paper confine myself to the consideration of diet in European Hospitals alone, for to treat exhaustively the very important and complex question of diet in Native Hospitals as well, would require lengthened space, and more special knowledge than I have at my disposal. I may be allowed, however, to remark enpassant that the ? latter subject...

towards his maintenance, and is asked to do so, nor the fact that a hospital patient can well afford to pay for treatment, and is expected to do so, vitiate the essentially voluntary character of the great bulk of the work in that hospital, which is certainly primarily intended for and mainly used by those who cannot afford to pay for such treatment. Any such payments are, of course, quite volu...

M. Heys , T. Candler , A. Costello , D.S. Manandhar , R.M. Viner e a Institute for Global Health, University College London, UK b Department of Paediatrics Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, UK c Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA), World Health Organization, Switzerland d Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA), Nepal e Institut...