As the global health community embraces universal health coverage, a lesson from the 1978 Declaration of Alma Ata is worth remembering. The Declaration was a landmark in global public health and was the conclusion of one of the most important international conferences on primary health care. But in Alma Ata, it was recognised that there was more to improving population health than primary healt...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the methods and results of a systematic review to identify instruments used to measure quality of life outcomes in older people. The primary focus of the review was to identify instruments suitable for application with older people within economic evaluations conducted in the aged care sector. METHODS Online databases searched were PubMed, Medline, Scopus, and ...

Tanzania continues to enjoy stability and growth in different sectors similar to other countries; however, some challenges persist in the health sector, especially in the area of cancer care. The current study aimed at reviewing social economic status (SES), as well as factors contributing to the increased burden of breast cancer (BC) in Tanzania. The current study reviewed different articles a...

INTRODUCTION The US Health Care and Social Services sector (North American Industrial Classification System 'sector 62') has become an extremely important component of the nation's economy, employing approximately 18 million workers and generating almost $753 billion in annual payrolls. At the county level, the health care and social services sector is typically the largest or second largest em...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the levels of job satisfaction and its predictors among primary health care and treatment sectors' staff in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. METHODS This comparative study was conducted in East Azerbaijan Province,Iran in 2011. A questionnaire survey was performed on 420 staff from health care and treatment sectors using multi-stage proportional ...

BACKGROUND Most of the about 140 million informal sector workers in urban China do not have health insurance. A 1998 central government policy leaves it to the discretion of municipal governments to offer informal sector workers in cities voluntary participation in a social health insurance for formal sector workers, the so-called 'basic health insurance' (BHI). METHODS We used the contingent...

The health care system in Pakistan is beset with numerous problems--structural fragmentation, gender insensitivity, resource scarcity, inefficiency and lack of functional specificity and accessibility. Faced with a precarious economic situation characterized by heavy external debt and faltering productivity, Pakistan's room to maneuver with health sector reform is quite limited. Although the re...

Atenção integral à saúde de mulheres em situação de violência de gênero – uma alternativa para a atenção primária em saúde Comprehensive health (care) services to women in gender violence situation – an alternative to primary health care Abstract This paper deals with the possibilities of the health sector to approach violence against women in its practices as a gender issue. It is presented a ...

AIM To evaluate the results of current reforms in Macedonian health sector. METHOD Description and situation analysis, covering the period 1991-1997, are focused on demographic and vital indicators, morbidity and mortality data, elements of health care system, legislation, health insurance, health care financing, and elements of health care reforms. RESULTS The Republic of Macedonia experie...