Outcome-based education is a topic of growing interest in educational circles today. More performance-oriented than traditional learning approaches, outcome-based education requires students to demonstrate what they know and what they can do. Because of this emphasis, outcome-based curricula will require new methods to assess student achievement. One approach is the portfolio, a repository that...

BACKGROUND Despite some empirical findings on the usefulness of citizen's charters on awareness of rights and services, there is a dearth of literature about charter implementation and impact on health service delivery in low-income settings. OBJECTIVE To gauge the level of awareness of the Charter within Nepal's primary health-care (PHC) system, perceived impact and factors affecting Charter...

We read with interest McCance and Cameron’s article reporting the experiences and views of qualified midwives on giving postpartum contraceptive advice in the July 2014 issue of the Journal. We would like to draw readers’ attention to a complementary study that we carried out with final-year student midwives on a 3-year midwifery programme in a UK university. 3 This study reflects McCance and C...

background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...

CONTEXT The significant impact of mental ill health in rural and remote Australia has been well documented. Included among innovative approaches undertaken to address this issue has been the Mental Health Academic (MHA) project, established in 2007. Funded by the Australian Government (Department of Health), this project was established as a component of the University Departments of Rural Heal...

Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are currently reforming their national health sectors and also implementing a comprehensive approach to reproductive health care. Three regional workshops to explore how health sector reform could improve reproductive health services have revealed the inherently complex, competing, and political nature of health sector reform and reproduct...

BACKGROUND This paper explores how community participation can be used in designing rural primary healthcare services by describing a study of Scottish communities. Community participation is extolled in healthcare policy as useful in planning services and is understood as particularly relevant in rural settings, partly due to high social capital. Literature describes many community participati...

Background: One of the most important indicators of quality of services and monitoring health services is evaluation and assessment of patient satisfaction of services that comes from sociology research. Aim: To identify the effect of providing post partum care at home on maternal received care and satisfaction. Method: This clinical trial was carried out on 200 mothers who referred to Akbar Ab...