Introduction: Quality has a sixty years old historical heritage in health care establishment. Most countries use organizational superiority models an approach to execute total quality management, which in turn would lead to improved work performance and drastic change in organizations. The present study is to view the organizational superiority model in selected countries and come up with a mod...

Health care is considered a universal human right greatly emphasized in social welfare development in most countries. In this regard, public health care with its pervasive effects on the general level of communities' health is a top priority drawing the attention of planners and decision-makers a like. Unequal and inharmonious distribution of such services leads to unequal accessibility cau...

Health care is considered a universal human right greatly emphasized in social welfare development in most countries. In this regard, public health care with its pervasive effects on the general level of communities' health is a top priority drawing the attention of planners and decision-makers a like. Unequal and inharmonious distribution of such services leads to unequal accessibility cau...

Background and Aim: Nowadays selecting an appropriate technology for storing and disposal of health care wastes is a difficult task. For example, selecting an optimum technology for storing and disposal of hospital wastes is a complex multi-criteria decision-making process, which requires consideration of qualitative and quantitative factors and criteria. This paper presents a new decision-maki...

Introduction: Schizophrenia has a significant effect on the performance of patients, mostly Global of Functioning. The aim was to evaluate a self-care programchr('39')s effectiveness based on Oremchr('39')s model on the global function (GF) of patients with schizophrenia. Methods: Self-Care Training program was developed and evaluated based on the Orem self-care model in two phases. At first, ...

Objectives: Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases in old age. The self-care and quality of life of older people can improved by appropriate interventions. This study aims to assess the effects of an intervention based on 5A model on self-care and quality of life in the elderly with hypertension.. Methods & Materials: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 80 older peo...