Health issues unique to women and differences in healthcare experiences have recently gained attention as health plans and systems seek to extend and improve health promotion and disease prevention in the population. Successful efforts focused on enhancing quality of care will require information from the patient's perspective on how to improve such services to best support women's attempts to ...

HEALTHiADMNISTRAION The provision of health care services to the people of India is a basic responsibility of state governments and to some extent of municipal corporations of the larger cities. The Union Government is responsible for this provision in Union administered territories. (a) Central Administration. The Union Government, through the Ministry of Health, generally has largely advisory...

The process of production planning and control contributes significantly to the efficiency of modern production systems. However, common central planning methods in industrial application show deficits in complex and dynamic production environments. In contrast to prevailing central control methods, approaches of autonomous control offer the chance to cope with these dynamic conditions more eff...

Since the early 1990s, organizations have focused on making smarter decisions in their integrated supply chain central planning, but the representation of capacity and cycle time has remained static and linear in contrast to its complex nature. This includes central planning for firms with semiconductor fabrication facilities (FABS) as a component of a complex demand supply network(DSN) where m...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine strategies for recruiting physician subjects in a practice-based research network continuing education research study, using different recruitment methods at four systems, or health plan arrangements. METHODS The North Texas Primary Care Practice-based Research Network Needs Assessment Study consisted of a survey and five self-directed med...

PURPOSE The purpose of the current study is to explore third- year medical students' interest in learning about family planning, exposure to family planning (contraception and abortion) and perceived barriers and benefits to family planning education in their obstetrics and gynecology rotation. METHOD We conducted four focus groups with 27 third-year medical students near the end of their rot...

This work proposes a model for planning of education based on resources and layers. Each learning material or concept is determined by certain characteristics: a layer and a list of resources and resource values. Models of studied subject domain, learner, information and verification unit, learning material, plan of education and education have been defined. The plan of education can be convent...

background: patient education is widely recognized as a core component of nursing. patient education can lead to quality outcomes including adherence, quality of life, patients' knowledge of their illness and self-management. this study aimed to clarify patient education process in teaching hospitals affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences (tums) in iran.   methods : this cross-sect...

Currently, the complexities inherent in higher education management are enormous. Many scholars agree that institutional environment related factors which are internally and externally driven affecting the performance of this day’s higher education institutions. Some of these factors involve massification and expansion of higher education system; reduced public funding; high quality concern; th...