Electronic government was formally introduced to the public sector in late 1990s in developed countries. Ever since its inception proponents of electronic government have been presenting it as a formula for improving the public sector through making the public sector more e-business like. In this perspective, the main objectives of public sector transformation promoted by electronic government ...

BACKGROUND The major objectives of this study were to evaluate the existing primary health care service provisions in the public and private sector and utilization of the services, and to assess the existing manpower and material resources. METHODS Data were collected through interviews with the primary health care providers. Data were also collected from the records maintained at the polycli...

Electronic government was formally introduced to the public sector in late 1990s in developed countries. Ever since its inception proponents of electronic government have been presenting it as a formula for improving the public sector through making the public sector more e-business like. In this perspective, the main objectives of public sector transformation promoted by electronic government ...

M-government involves the provision of public sector services via mobile technologies. Two principal drivers are influencing the genesis of m-government: the need to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of service provision and the availability of an adequate technological infrastructure for mobile services. There is a third, but less visible, influence on the likely success of m-governmen...

A study of private-sector immunization services was undertaken to assess scope of practice and quality of care and to identify opportunities for the development of models of collaboration between the public and the private health sector. A questionnaire survey was conducted with health providers at 127 private facilities; clinical practices were directly observed; and a policy forum was held fo...

background india’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   methods in this paper, i tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...

Healthcare PPPs where clinical services as well as infrastructure are delivered by the private sector are coming under the spotlight as governments seek to achieve value for money in health budgets. Existing examples are being reported as successful, however this article urges caution as a closer look at the evidence shows that handing over control of service delivery to the private sector is d...

background: lack of access to health services has been mentioned as one of the main causes of health inequity in health system. the aim of this study was to measure horizontal inequity in access to outpatient services in shiraz. method: this household survey was conducted among 1608 participants above 18 years in shiraz in 2012. four-stage sampling was used. according to high amount of zero-val...