Purpose: Considering the role of quality of educational services in the growth and development of society, the present study was conducted to the aim of identifying the factors effecting on assessing the quality of educational services in education. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation was qualitative. The research community included documents ...

the increasing of emigration from villages to cities and decreasing of services to villagers to afford of daily needs causes that they recourse to the cities especial in central business districts. it needs to spend much time and causes to increase the villagers’ costs. so in this article it have been tried to compare between the services centers for villagers in zabol city and it have been tri...

background: measurement of patients’ satisfaction as a reliable indicator of quality of hospital service shows the ability of care providers to meet patients' expectations. this study was conducted to assess patients’ satisfaction in hospital services. methods:  this cross-sectional study was carried out at the zanjan university of medical sciences in 2013 -2014. a total of 486 were select...

In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the importance of strategic research communication. Health research organisations need to be able to communicate their research effectively to increase the probability that the findings influence policy and practice, and benefit those in greatest need. Many research funders are making communications a requirement of research funding. This...

BACKGROUND Citizen participation in health service co-production is increasingly enacted. A reason for engaging community members is to co-design services that are locally-appropriate and harness local assets. To date, much literature examines processes of involving participants, with little consideration of innovative services are designed, how innovations emerge, develop and whether they sust...

A cross-sectional study of patient satisfaction with care was conducted over a period of 1 year from March 2004 to March 2005 in a secondary-level hospital in a peri-urban area of Karachi, Pakistan. Using the SERVQUAL tool and exit interviews, data were collected quarterly from a total of 1533 patients. Results sharing and capacity-building workshops were arranged during the 4 phases of the sur...

Outlining an educational initiative for those who work in the National Health Service (NHS), this article argues that literary reflection has been too easily seen as a simple tool which may improve the practitioner's empathic skills and benefit patient-centred care. Using anecdotal feedback, the author reports ways in which a series of literary workshops held for professionals in the NHS have a...

BACKGROUND Child-rearing remains a concern within our communities, especially because families of today lack primary parents due to multifaceted challenges such as working mothers, diseases and violence. Health-promoting school initiatives are necessary because they allow a multifaceted approach to child-rearing. They further provide a conducive environment for continued schoolchild-rearing mov...

BACKGROUND Many medical institutions have moved forward with curricular objectives aimed at teaching professionalism, but the question remains: are we teaching the most appropriate content at the most opportune times to maximize sustained learning? The students' point of view of professionalism is helpful in addressing this question. AIM To describe the views of professionalism held by studen...