kangaroo mother care (kmc) is effective care method that avoids aggressive routinely methods in neonatal wards. objective of this study was comparing kmc with conventional care (incubator) of premature infant in neonatal ward. this study was a randomized controlled clinical trial that has been done in 17 months. 40 premature neonates whose birth weight was less than 1500gr were enrolled in the ...

Abstract Home health care (HHC) is a core source of home- and community-based services to older adults “aging in place’. This study examined variation HHC quality by neighborhood characteristics the US using 5 years (2014-2019) national Health Compare data linked Providers Services (POS) files Area Resources Files (AHRF). was measured agency rates timely initiation care, hospitalization, ED vis...

background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

This research attempts to close an important gap in health economics regarding the efficacy of prenatal care and policies designed to improve access to that care, such as Medicaid. We argue that a key beneficiary-- the mother-- has been left completely out of the analysis. If prenatal care significantly improves the health of the mother, then concluding that prenatal care is 'ineffective' or th...

  Abstract   Background: The aim of study was to compare the effect of Kangaroo mother care (KMC) and conventional methods of care (CMC) in low birth weight babies less than 2000 grams.   Method: One hundred babies with birth weight less than 2000 grams and without clinical problem were   randomized in two groups the intervention group (N=50) who received Kangaroo mother care and the control gr...

OBJECTIVE To measure ecological relationships between neighborhood pollution burden, poverty, race/ethnicity, and pediatric preventable disease hospitalization rates. STUDY DESIGN Preventable disease hospitalization rates were obtained from the 2012 California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development database, for 8 Central Valley counties. US Census Data was used to incorporate zi...

objectives: civil rights may cover different aspects of citizens’ lives. all the members of the society should have equal access to the public facilities and public transportation system. barriers and obstacles in society may limit the accessibility of these facilities to the disabled people. methods: this article contains a part of the results in a phenomenological study of the disability righ...

introduction: health care is one of the most important sectors in the development of each country and disparities in their distribution will reduce the level of development. the aim of this study was to examine the access to healthcare and degree of development in health care resources in the west of iran in 2011. method: this was a cross-sectional and retrospective study. the study setting was...