BACKGROUND The urban health extension program (UHEP) is an innovative government plan to ensure health equity by creating demand for essential health services through the provision of appropriate health information at a household level. It aims to improve the overall health of a community through active participation and utilization of services, which depends on satisfaction and acceptance of t...

background and objectives: job satisfaction is a critical factor in attracting and retaining nurses. although many studies have dealt with nurses’ job satisfaction, rapid transformation of the community and health systems can alter the factors influencing this issue, hence calling for continuous monitoring of job satisfaction as perceived by nurses. built on this necessity, the present study wa...

OBJECTIVE Community participation is integral to wellness. This study examined the outcomes of Let's Go, a program designed to facilitate community participation of urban-dwelling, low-income older adults. METHOD Fifty-two older adults participated in a mixed-methods, single-group pretest-posttest study. The Impact on Participation and Autonomy Questionnaire, participant surveys, and semistru...

BACKGROUND Psychological life satisfaction is a robust predictor of wellbeing. Public health measures to improve wellbeing would benefit from an understanding of how overall life satisfaction varies as a function of satisfaction with multiple life domains, an area that has been little explored. We examine a sample of drought-affected Australian farmers and a general community sample of Australi...

OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes of care from assertive community treatment teams with care by community mental health teams for people with serious mental illnesses. DESIGN Non-blind randomised controlled trial. SETTING Two inner London boroughs. PARTICIPANTS 251 men and women under the care of adult secondary mental health services with recent high use of inpatient care and difficulties en...

OBJECTIVES The main objective of this study was to examine the level of patient satisfaction with the care rendered by community midwives in the area of Poznań. MATERIAL AND METHODS A patient survey was distributed using face-to-face recruitment and with mail collection. Eight hundred new mothers were asked to participate in the study by filling out the questionnaire after eight weeks of the ...