OBJECTIVE To examine patients' experiences of fairness and commitment in the health care context with an emphasis on primary care providers. DESIGN Qualitative, semistructured, individual interviews were used to gather evidence for the justice and commitment frameworks across a variety of settings with an emphasis on primary care relationships. SETTING Rural, urban, and semiurban communitie...

OBJECTIVE To develop an instrument for provider organizations, consumers, purchasers, and policy makers to measure and compare the development of quality systems in provider organizations. DESIGN Cross-sectional study of provider organizations using a structured questionnaire to survey managers. SETTING The Netherlands. STUDY PARTICIPANTS Provider organizations of six health care fields: ...

background equity of access to health and provider payment mechanism in healthcare is a worldwide debated. healthcare reforms are primarily designed to improve productivity, economic efficiency and quality of care; however, an appropriate reimbursement of healthcare providers for services offered to patients and marinating a robust payment mechanism are not elucidated yet. conclusions no single...

OBJECTIVE National recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners promote that all children obtain quality primary care through a consistent medical provider who can better assess, diagnose, and monitor a child's health. The purpose of this article was to identify characteristics of children in Florida without a personal healt...

Health constitutes a sufficiently solid entrance to reduce poverty and promote economic growth. Yet, in most African countries and particularly in Côte d’Ivoire, the populations’ state of health has seen a real deterioration over the last decade. This study seeks to explain this decline by determining the explanatory factors of recourse to health care providers. To this end, the multinomial log...

background service quality generally refers to the non-health and non-clinical aspects of the health services and mainly focuses on relationship between care provider and health customers, and the environment in which care services are delivered. because of undeniable role of service quality on the improving health results, this study aims to assess service quality in rehabilitation faculty phy...

Reflective practice is a paper requirement of your career progression in health care. However, if done properly, it can greatly improve your skills as a health care provider. This article provides some structure to reflective practice to allow a health care provider to engage more with reflective practice and get more out of the experience.

This paper discusses specific trends in health care financing impacting the demand for health care services, and examines the patient provider relationship from an economic perspective. Patients are paying more outof-pocket for health care likely promoting demand for health care goods and services high in quality and value. When the patient-provider relationship is examined from an agency persp...