1 RTI International, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 2 LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 3 Iota Ink LLC, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 4 The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America, 5 Ministry of Public Health and Population, Port au Prince, Haiti, 6 IMA World Health, New Windsor, M...

It is estimated about 529,000 mothers die every year (World Health Organisation [WHO] 2005). Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), a life-threatening condition, remains the major cause of maternal mortality worldwide (Pahlavan et al., 2001). Majority of these mortalities are from Asia (48%) and Africa (47.5%) with only the minority (less than 1%) from developed countries.(Ramanathan & Arulkumaran, 2006...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the degree to which individual and household variables jointly predict utilization of curative ambulatory services in Mexico for four types of health providers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Patient choice of provider (self-care, Ministry of Health, social security, or private provider) when they become ill is modeled using a nested multinomial logit model that uses household an...

The Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran designed a comprehensive system as health care excellence model with participation of National Institute of Productivity & Organizational Excellence since January 2011 and introduced it in June 2012. The purpose of this paper is adapting of Joint Commission International Accreditation System in hospital by organizational excellence model in h...

There is often a negative association between the volume of medical procedures and hospital mortality rates. The objective of this study is to determine whether this association is observed in Brazilian hospitals performing coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) that were financed by the Ministry of Health. CABG surgeries performed from 1996 to 1998 were analyzed. Data were collected from the Min...

1 Turkish Ministry of Health Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara Turkey 2 Turkish Ministry of Health Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey. 3 Başkent University Ankara Hospital, Ankara Turkey 4 Turkish Ministry of Health Dr.A.Y. Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital. Ankara Turkey 5 Retired Radiation Oncologist. Ankara Turkey Case Report American Jo...