INTRODUCTION Female imprisonment has numerous health and social sequelae for both women prisoners and their children. Examples of comprehensive family-friendly prison policies that seek to improve the health and social functioning of women prisoners and their children exist but have not been evaluated. This study will determine the impact of exposure to a family-friendly prison environment on h...

BACKGROUND Many older people are vulnerable with multiple health problems and need of extensive care and support for quality of life. The main objective of this study was to explore the older people's perspectives on an "elderly-friendly" hospital. METHODS Hospital was stratified by four domains including government, semi-government, community, and private. We interviewed 33 hospitalized olde...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to examine the effects of macro-level factors - welfare state policies and public health initiatives - on breastfeeding initiation among eighteen high-income countries. METHODS This study utilizes fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis methods to examine the combinations of conditions leading to both high and low national breastfeeding initiation ...

background: rooming-in, motivated by world health organization (who) strategies and baby-friendly hospital policies, is a practice followed in many maternity hospitals of iran. mother-infant dyad may easily be damaged by the separation caused by medical and surgical problems, which result in hospital stay. regarding this, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the rooming-in pr...

introduction: patient safety improvement requires ongoing culture. this cultural change is the most important challenge that managers are faced with in creation of a safe system. this study aims to show the results of initiatives to improvement in patient safety culture in fateme al-zahra hospital. method: in the quasi-experimental research, patient safety culture was measured using the persian...