Medical tourism is a practice where individuals cross international borders in order to access medical care. This practice can impact the global distribution of health workers by potentially reducing the emigration of health workers from destination countries for medical tourists and affecting the internal distribution of these workers. Little has been said, however, about the impacts of medica...

background: every year millions of dollars are expended to equip and maintain the hospital sterilization centers, and our country is not an exception of this matter. according to this, it is important to use more effective technologies and methods in health system in order to reach more effectiveness and saving in costs. this study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the technology of regi...

BACKGROUND There are different street substance users' communities (SSUCs). Typology of SSUCs in Tehran, Iran was approached in this qualitative study. METHODS Using content analysis and saturation principles, 22 street-outreach workers were recruited and interviewed. Data were analyzed using open, axial, and selective coding. FINDINGS Three types of SSUCs were identified. SSUCs were differ...

Context.— Problems with health care worker (HCW) well-being have become a leading concern in medicine given their severity and robust links to outcomes like medical error, mortality, turnover. Objective.— To describe the state of science regarding HCW well-being, including how it is measured, what predicts, institutional individual interventions appear reduce it. Data Sources.— Peer review arti...

Casa Siloé (Siloam House) is a Catholic support house that shelters children with human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The article presents a history of the institution and discusses its work. A qualitative approach was used, relying on oral history techniques and documental analysis. Eight key informants were interviewed: the president of the institution, two coo...