BACKGROUND Growing social inequities have made it important for general practitioners to verify if patients can afford treatment and procedures. Incorporating social conditions into clinical decision-making allows general practitioners to address mismatches between patients' health-care needs and financial resources. OBJECTIVES Identify a screening question to, indirectly, rule out patients' ...

The relationship between physical activity and mental health has been widely investigated, and several hypotheses have been formulated about it. Specifically, during the aging process, physical exercise might represent a potential adjunctive treatment for neuropsychiatric disorders and cognitive impairment, helping delay the onset of neurodegenerative processes. Even though exercise itself migh...

INTRODUCTION Laws, regulations, and guidelines are necessary external stimuli that influence the management of health data. They serve as external mechanisms for the reinforcement and quality improvement of health information. Despite their inevitable significance, such laws have not yet been sufficiently formulated in Iran. The current study explores reasons for inadequacies in the health info...

This study was designed to identify: (1) predictors of 12-month healthcare service utilization for mental health reasons, framed by the Andersen model, among a population cohort in an epidemiological catchment area; and (2) correlates associated with healthcare service utilization for mental health reasons among individuals with and without mental disorders respectively. Analyses comprised univ...

background: improving the neonatal health and reducing the neonatal mortality rate is valuable for not only health reasons, but social, psychological and economic reasons. it has advantages not just for the neonatal period of life but for the whole life. unfortunately in iran, in spite of efforts, there has been little success in decreasing the neonatal mortality rate. since investigating the c...

BACKGROUND Most societies elaborate ways to contain increasing health care expenditures. In Switzerland out of pocket payments and cuts in the catalogue of reimbursed services are used as cost-containment measures. The aims of the study were to estimate the extent of health care renunciation for economic reasons and to identify associated factors. METHODS A population-based cross-sectional su...

The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development represented a paradigm shift from vertical population control programmes to the broad-based promotion of sexual and reproductive health as human rights, through strengthening of health services and dealing with the underlying social determinants of health. In its Programme of Action, the global community set ambitious targets for r...

In this study, we aimed to identify for what reasons children receive mental health care and sociodemographic characteristics are associated with these specific reasons. This study investigated 777 who consulted a psychologist/psychiatrist between 9 13 years old. Data were retrieved from the Generation R Study, population-based cohort in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Sociodemographic measured birth L...