OBJECTIVE To examine the development and implementation of a novel income security intervention in primary care. DESIGN A retrospective, descriptive chart review of all patients referred to the Income Security Heath Promotion service during the first year of the service (December 2013-December 2014). SETTING A multisite interdisciplinary primary care organisation in inner city Toronto, Cana...

In carrying out its statutory mandate to make studies concerning the advancement of economic security through social insurance, the Social Security Administration has followed closely the progress of voluntary health insurance. Important developments in this field have occurred during the 3 years that have passed since the Administration's Bureau of Research and Statistics published the results...

Interviews with 32 community behavioral health providers elicited perceived benefits and barriers of using electronic health records. Themes identified were (a) quality of care, (b) privacy and security, and (c) delivery of services. Benefits to quality of care were mentioned by 100% of the providers, and barriers by 59% of providers. Barriers involving privacy and security concerns were mentio...

background and objectives: health human resources is the major asset of the health system. the status of human resources in upstream and regulatory health organizations can exert high impact on the effectiveness of health policies and the performance of health system. this study, hence, was designed to explore the possible area of human resource damage to the employees of the iranian ministry o...

The United States is in the midst of a demographic transformation as the number of people over the age of 65 has grown to its highest level, accounting for nearly 13 percent of the total population (Werner 2011). As the population ages, policy makers, families, and retirees themselves all seek to improve the often isolating process of aging that occurs as mobility decreases, friends die, and fa...

Poverty causes illiteracy and illiteracy causes poverty. No country today better exemplifies this cycle than Pakistan, where most educational plans and policies have failed to make any significant contribution towards increase in literacy rates. The objective of this paper is to critically examine the improvement in educational status and poverty by analyzing the Pro-Poor Growth Index & Poverty...

Political scientists bring important tools to the analysis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, particularly a focus on the crucial role of power in global health politics. We delineate different kinds of power at play during the COVID-19 crisis, showing how a dearth of compulsory, institutional, and epistemic power undermined global cooperation and fuel...