extractcontinuing education is not new for us because there  is emphasis on learning and continuing education  in our culture including literature, religion, and special  traditions in different ways  .as prophet muhammad (pbuh) says: “seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave” that  it is emphasis on continuous learning and continuous. in the holy quran  the word of “alam “repeatedly stated ...

reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. adopted from the toyota production system (tps), the lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. in the context of health care, lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...

health care system is organized to achieve more efficiency as well as developing public equity and providing access to the first, second and third levels of services. family physician is in the first line of the health care system; in other words, family physician is the health system’s goalkeeper. according to classification of health services, gaining access to specialized services becomes po...

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the components of oral health care system in some developed countries and propose a model for Iran   Methods: The present study was a qualitative, cross-sectional, and comparative research that took place in 2012. Oral health care systems in some developed countries were reviewed to propose a framework for Iran. This framework was discussed and revie...

recent disclosures of failures of care in the national health service (nhs) in england have led to debates about compassion deficits disallowing health professionals to provide high quality responsive care. while the link between high quality care and compassion is often taken for granted, it is less obvious how compassion – often originating in the individual’s emotional response – can become ...

recognizing the advantages of primary care as a means of improving the entire health system, this text comments on reforms of publicly funded primary health centers, and the rapid development of private forprofit providers in sweden. many goals and expectations are connected to such reforms, which equally require critical analyses of scarce resources, professional trust/motivation and business ...

Recent disclosures of failures of care in the National Health Service (NHS) in England have led to debates about compassion deficits disallowing health professionals to provide high quality responsive care. While the link between high quality care and compassion is often taken for granted, it is less obvious how compassion – often originating in the individual’s emotional response – can become ...