background: there are thirteen who collaborating centres in iran which no mechanism or model has ever been foreseen for the evaluation of them. this original research is innovative in iran, which has been offered by the researcher through a joint research project with who. methods: the aforesaid model has been approved by the international relation department of ministry of health& education. t...

STRANGE BUT TRUE: THE CANCER CARE ONTARIO SCENARIO In Ontario, each cancer centre is attached to a host hospital. If a cancer patient straddles the line separating the cancer centre from the host hospital and lifts one foot, that patient is receiving services governed by the board of the hospital. If that same person lifts the other foot, the patient is receiving services governed by the board ...

District eye programmes Here, approximately 80% of the needs for eye care services are relatively simple, such as refractive errors or cataract surgery. The remaining 20% is made up of more complex surgical interventions (including retinal or vitreous surgery, for example). When an eye programme is well designed and well managed, solutions for simple needs (80%) can be delivered close to commun...

INTRODUCTION The rate of cholecystectomy in northwestern Ontario is double the provincial rate. This paper explores the demographics of cholecystectomy and the role for rural endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) services in the central part of this region. METHODS We conducted a literature review of ERCP services and cholecystectomy rates, as well as a hospital chart review o...

OBJECTIVE To assess capacity to provide essential surgical services including emergency, obstetric and anaesthesia care in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in order to support planning for relevant post-2015 sustainable development goals for PNG. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Hospitals and health facilities in PNG. PARTICIPANTS 21 facilities including 3 national/provincial hospitals, 11 di...

Regional economic disparities are characteristic of Canada. Southern Ontario and Quebec have long been the home of many of the businesses that dominate the country’s economy, while business centres in the other regions of the country have played a lesser role in all but a few economic sectors. This paper studies the evolution of Canada’s system of business centres by contrasting the locational ...

AIMS To assess willingness to pay for spectacles in provincial Cambodia, and use this to inform creation of a financially self-sustaining spectacle scheme within a blindness prevention programme. METHODS An interview-based questionnaire was used to elicit willingness to pay for spectacles of all people dispensed spectacles during an outreach refraction service visit to three village health ce...

Zhen Li, Jianling Hou, Rongtao Zheng, Zhongwei Li, Jing Wen, Dianchang Liu, Ruyuan Liu, Tongsheng Chu, Bing Liu, Gongqi Yu, Hongqing Tian, FuRen Zhang Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Provincial Academy of Medical Science, Jinan, Shandong, China; Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases, Jinan, Shandong, China; Shandong Provincial Medical Center for Dermatoven...

1 Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China, 2 Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, 3 Shandong Provincial Key Lab for Dermatovenereology, Jinan, Shandong, China, 4 Shandong Provincial Medical Center for Dermatovenereology, Jinan, Shandong, China, 5 Jinan Insti...

NA WANG****, XIANMEI LU******* & FUREN ZHANG********** * Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China ** Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China *** Shandong Provincial Key Lab for Dermatovenereology, Jinan, Shandong, China **** Shandong Provincial Medical Center for...