pharmacists are healthcare professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use. the role of pharmacist has shifted from the classical “lick, stick and pour” dispensary role, to being an integrated member of the health care team directly involved in patient care. but, in our country pharmacists are mainly engaged with manufacturing o...

background tradition is a part of people’s culture that can influence the health care. it is, therefore, necessary to identify the habits that change the health behavior of people. objectives in this study, we aimed to spot the traditions affecting maternity cares in the rural areas of qazvin province, iran. patients and methods a qualitative approach (ethnographic research) was applied. data w...

doctor shoja-ad-din sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as dr. sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. he is credited for the establishment of the iranian association of rehabilitation, shafa yahyaian hospital as an orthopedic and rehabilitation center, the social welfare organization, iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...

BACKGROUND Asthma is one of the major chronic health problems in children in the Netherlands. The Pelican is a paediatric asthma-related quality of life instrument for children with asthma from 6-11 years old, which is suitable for clinical practice in primary and specialized care. Based on this instrument, we developed a self-management treatment to improve asthma-related quality of life. The ...

background recognizing the significant impact of wait times for care for individuals with complex chronic conditions, we applied a lean methodology, namely – an adaptation of value stream mapping (vsm) to meet the needs of people with multiple chronic conditions and to improve wait times without additional resources or funding.   methods over an 18-month time period, staff applied a patient-cen...

s health reform expands the Medicaid population by 16-20 million individuals over the next decade, efforts to strengthen the primary care delivery system are increasingly critical, particularly for lowincome populations. Small primary care practices, which serve high volumes of Medicaid beneficiaries and racially and ethnically diverse populations, often lack infrastructure and staff needed to ...

BACKGROUND The increasing demand of health care services and the complexity of health care delivery require Health Care Organizations (HCOs) to approach clinical risk management through proper methods and tools. An important aspect of risk management is to exploit the analysis of medical injuries compensation claims in order to reduce adverse events and, at the same time, to optimize the costs ...

The results of coordinating and changing patterns of health care using managed care activities and organizations are reviewed in this article. Although utilization review and high-cost case management programs reduce the use of expensive services, incentives for providers of care, placing them at risk, are important for managing the intensity of health care. Managed care appears capable of redu...

The worldwide economic recession and the concomitant limited stock of finances have had an influence on the available money of every household and have also inhibited the improvement of socio-economic conditions and medicine. The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) has the objective of improving the living conditions of the people with regard to housing, education, training and healt...

The article briefly systematizes health care models, emphasizes the role of population surveys as a management tool and analyzes the specific case of the Brazilian Oral Health Survey (SBBrasil 2010) and its contribution to the consolidation process of health care models consistent with the principles of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS, Public Health Care System). While in legal terms SUS corres...