Universal health coverage is gaining momentum and is likely to form a core part of the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda and be linked to social determinants of health, including gender; Close to community health providers are arguably key players in meeting the goal of universal health coverage through extending and delivering health services to poor and marginalised groups; Close ...

BACKGROUND The need to scale up treatment for HIV/AIDS has led to a revival in community health workers to help alleviate the health human resource crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Community health workers have been employed in Mozambique since the 1970s, performing disparate and fragmented activities, with mixed results. METHODS A participant-observer description of the evolution of community h...

Australia requires a national plan, similar to plans developed internationally, to address the impacts of rare diseases on individuals, the community and health services. Rare diseases often present in childhood, many are chronic, some life threatening and others associated with significant disability. However, diagnosis is often delayed, because of lack of knowledge and experience of health pr...

Mr. Ward is president and CEO, Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans. "W hen one door closes, another opens ." This has certainly been the experience of Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans ( D C S N O ) . When in 1992 Daughters of Charity National Health SystemWest Central Region ( D C N H S W C ) sold its Hotel Dieu Hospital in overbedded New Orleans to the state of Louisiana, ...

The Livingston integrated health services project is an attempt to provide a fully integrated area health service with special emphasis on developing multidisciplinary community health teams. As part of this experiment a clinical psychologist was appointed to work in general practice. Ninety-four patients with behavioural, emotional, and cognitive problems were referred in the first year (1% of...

This Comment argues that a ban on information regarding the availability of abortion in other Member States violates the Treaty by obstructing the free movement of services. Part I of this Comment examines the provision in Community law for the free movement of services and tracks the development of laws regulating abortion in Ireland and the Community. Part II discusses Society for the Protect...

this research is a analytical- descriptive study. the aim of this study is determination attitude of health centers authorities in tehran about roles and activities of community health nurse. the research instrument was a questionnaire with 33 questions that was made by the researcher. the data was collected through visit to research units in health centers. the result of research showed that t...

Despite the consensus regarding community integration as a major goal of mental health policy and the emergence of supportive independent housing as a critical component of community mental health services, mental health services research has not examined the extent to which housing and service characteristics are associated with community integration of persons with psychiatric disabilities in...

BACKGROUND Systematic ethics support in community health services in Norway is in the initial phase. There are few evaluation studies about the significance of ethics reflection on care. The aim of this study was to evaluate systematic ethics reflection in groups in community health (including nursing homes and residency), - from the perspectives of employees participating in the groups, the gr...

Die ontwikkeling van gemeenskapsgesondheidsdienste vir die Arabiese plattelandse bevolking in Israel sedert 1948 word bespreek. Daar word veral gekyk na die ervarings van die verpleegkundiges, geneeshere en sanitêre werkers in die veld. Hulle het nie net met gesondheidsprobleme te kampe gehad nie, maar ook met talle kulturele struikelblokke in die lewering van voorkomende, genesende en rehabili...