This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people’s preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction approach. Reported subjective well-being data are used to directly evaluate utility consequences of public goods. The strengths of this approach are compared to traditional approaches and identification issues are addressed. Moreover, it is applied to panel data to estimate utilit...

How to cite this article: Tateke T, Woldie M, Ololo S. Determinants of patient satisfaction with outpatient health services at public and private hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #384, 11 pages. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/phcfm.v4i1.384 Background: Patients have explicit desires or requests for services when they visit hospitals. However, inadeq...

the holy shrine of imam rezaas is one of the most important places in iran in terms of religious and public beliefs. huge volumes of pilgrims travel to the mentioned place, so the appropriated environmental and furniture design to increase the visitors' satisfaction is inevitable. in this regards, the main objective of this study is to identify an appropriated design for public water taps ...

introduction: the profits of executable referral system process are including: decrease the staff and equipment and saving in expenses and tools, appropriate division of sources for the best use of them and prevention of put patients to unreasonable expenses. in this course, the purpose of present study was to determine the effective factors on executable amount of referral system process in pu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a model of rural community health service (CHS) on the use and acceptability of primary healthcare services. DESIGN Quasi-experimental. SETTING Two adjacent rural counties in China. PARTICIPANTS 5842 residents in 2009 and 3807 in 2010 from 980 households in 7 intervention townships and 49 villages; 2232 residents in 2009 and 2315 in 2010 from 628 househ...

Research on customer satisfaction has increased substantially in recent years. However, the relative importance and relationships between different determinants of satisfaction remains uncertain. Moreover, quantitative studies to date tend to test for significance of pre-determined factors thought to have an influence with no scalable means to identify other causes of user satisfaction. The gap...