establishment of medical research centers at universities and health-related organizations and annually evaluation of their research activities was one of the strategic policies which followed by governmental organization in last decade in order to strengthening the connections between health research system and health system. the aim of this study is to scrutinize the role of medical research ...

HBV screening and vaccination are not done, in part because of the cost involved, as reflected in a recent report of the experience of 14 Boston community health centers. In these centers only 2 (1.1 percent) of 178 such susceptible patients received vaccine.6 Gjerdingen has shown that a practice-based community intervention can make a real difference. I hope that others in similar settings wil...

During the past twenty years, rapid strides have been made in the advancement of preventive medicine and community health work. With this development has come an increasing recognition of the value of bringing public health work close to the people. Several state and local health departments, in cooperation with medical societies and non-official health and welfare agencies, are giving serious ...

Village health volunteers (VHV) are community members trained as lay health workers. They are engaged in a variety of health care programs in which they are often required to make regular reports to their supervisors, including community-based surveillance data. The objective of this study was to identify factors influencing monthly reporting activities among VHV in a remote area of Lao PDR. Da...

To assess the effects of the gatekeeper policy implemented in Shenzhen, China, in conjunction with a labor health insurance program, on channeling patients toward community health centers (CHCs).Eight thousand patients who visited 8 CHCs in Shenzhen were surveyed between May 1, 2013 and July 28, 2013. Half of the patients were subject to gatekeeper policy and the other half of them were not. St...

ivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida; Division of Cardiac Surgery Research, Baystate edical Center, Springfield, Massachussetts; School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, niversity of Washington, Seattle Washington; Department of Surgery, Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, assachussetts; Department of Surg...

The Interdisciplinary Family Health course at the University of Florida Health Science Center is a course for beginning health profession students designed to teach core values, such as community-based family health, health promotion and disease prevention, and teamwork in the context of home visits. In addition, the course provides a valuable service to volunteer families by helping them ident...