The established relationships among social determinants of health (SDH), health disparities, and race/ethnicity highlight the need for health-care professionals to adequately address SDH in their encounters with patients. The ethnic demographic transition slated to occur during the next several decades in the United States will have numerous effects on the health-care sector, particularly as it...

background and objectives: social security organization (sso) is the second largest organization to the ministry of health and medical education (mohme) in providing health care services in iran. in recent years the gap between the sso’s resources and expenditures has shown an unprecedented growing trend due to the rapidly increasing demand. continuation of this trend may lead to financial imba...

PURPOSE To investigate the circumstances as to why it is so difficult in the primary care sector to implement IT based infrastructures supporting shared care. CASE STUDY The qualitative analysis includes two separate case studies of IT-supported shared care implemented in two different regions of Denmark throughout 2005. The study comprises 21 interviews and 35 hours of observations. The data...

Latin America continues to segregate different social groups into separate health-system segments, including two separate public sector blocks: a well resourced social security for salaried workers and their families and a Ministry of Health serving poor and vulnerable people with low standards of quality and needing a frequently impoverishing payment at point of service. This segregation shows...

In an effort to understand the factors that impinge on labour mobility in the health- and social-care sector in Ireland, an exploratory study was undertaken. This study involved key organizational stakeholders and individual practitioners in the health- and social-care environment. A qualitative design using purposive sampling was employed, involving face-to-face and telephone, semi-structured ...

There is little evidence to demonstrate the impact on local health outcomes of spending that occurs outside the health care sector. We leveraged novel data from the US Census Bureau to measure the independent impact of a community's health and nonhealth expenditures on a broad measure of overall health-the County Health Rankings-over time. Using lagged longitudinal models that accounted for cor...

In recent years, the UK social care sector has seen a massive growth in the number of microenterprises which are defined as very small organisations with five or fewer workers. Microenterprises are usually grass roots organisations established and run by local people, including those who are themselves disabled, and often combine paid and unpaid care provision. The informal nature of micro-ente...

Pakistan faces a human resources for health (HRH) crisis. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to overview frontline health workers. A total of 750 health facilities were surveyed across Pakistan. The median estimate of public sector health care workers in the district health system in Pakistan is 417 288, including 46 153 estimate of public sector health care workers in the district health s...