BACKGROUND Although there is a large increase in investment for tuberculosis control in Myanmar, there are few operational analyses to inform policies. Only 34% of nationally reported cases are from women. In this study, we investigate sex differences in tuberculosis diagnoses in Myanmar in order to identify potential health systems barriers that may be driving lower tuberculosis case finding a...

Investigating The Quality-of-Life Aged Individuals and Its Relationship with Socio-Economic Situation in City of Sanandaj

Langa Township, located in Cape Town, South Africa is home to many internal South African migrants and external African immigrants. As a mobile population, many Langa residents have embraced the mobile phone as a means of securing relationships with family members living elsewhere, while also maintaining relationships forged within the township and South Africa in general. Addressing the role o...

1. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Para-Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran 3. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehra...

Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi 1,* ID , Payam Hooshmand 2, Navid Bagheri 3, HamidReza KhakRah 4 ID and Majid Dousti 5 1 Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Energy Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Korea 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj 6616935391, Iran; [email protected] 3 Department of Energy Engineerin...

BACKGROUND Township-village health centers in rural areas play an important role in health service system in China. In East China's Jiangsu Province, the City of Haimen privatized all 25 township-village health centers in 2002. This study assesses the effect of privatization on staff retention among these health centers. METHODS This is a retrospective study based on 10-year administrative da...

BACKGROUND The increased funding and reimbursement for the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) have provided residents in rural China with better access to inpatient services. This research aims to examine the level of inappropriate admissions to township hospitals under NRCMS, and the determinants that influence inappropriate admissions. METHODS A total of 2,044 medical records in 1...

PURPOSE This study aimed to explore the competencies of public health workers (PHWs) of township hospitals in Chongqing Municipality (China), and determine the related impact factors of the competencies of PHWs; METHODS A cross-sectional research was conducted on 314 PHWs from 27 township hospitals in three districts in Chongqing Municipality (China), from June to August 2014. A self-assessme...