introduction: disasters are always challenging to hospital managers as they give rise to critical conditions. from all natural disasters occurring in the world, 31 have happened in iran, giving the country a high global rank in this regard. therefore it seems necessary for hospitals to adopt contingency plans. this study aimed to assess the level of preparedness of hospitals affiliated to shira...

There is no published empirical research into what topics should be covered in a managerial epidemiology course for graduate students in health services administration (HSA). The goal of the research described here was to identify epidemiologic topics seen as important to healthcare executives. A survey was conducted of a convenience sample of alumni the Graduate program in Health Services Admi...

Since 1974 the National Health Service (NHS) has been subject to successive reorganisations which have shaped and reshaped patterns of administration, clinical care and services. This paper uses two sources of oral evidence: a Witness Seminar with a group of administrators who attended the NHS National Administrators' Training Scheme in the late 1950s and a collection of interviews with doctors...

OBJECTIVE This study describes strategies developed by California counties to transform their mental health systems under the 2004 Mental Health Services Act (MHSA). This voter initiative places a 1% tax on annual incomes over $1 million; tax monies are earmarked to transform county-operated mental health services into systems that are oriented more toward recovery. MHSA implementation itself c...

BACKGROUND Patients' satisfaction with provided healthcare services is one of the factors to measure the overall quality of the delivered health care. Main objective of our study was to determine the common predictors associated with patients 'satisfaction in three Balkan countries. METHODS We conducted web based survey among population in Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria using paid campaign ov...