In traditional health care interactions, clinicians are the holders of patients’ medical information. In recent years, this information has become increasingly likely to be in a structured electronic health record (EHR), the control of which lies with the physician. The general argument for EHRs is that they can improve quality of patient care by better coordination of information— indeed the p...

this study have done to assess knowledge 200 girls and boys from 20 schools in 18th districts in south of tehran about individual hygiene. for gathering data use a questionnaire by 30 questions about knowledge of health in different part of body. the results of study show most of subjects have relatively good knowledge about individual hygiene. but their knowledge in some areas is more than oth...

The focus of the PAL project is to study how future requirements for healthcare services impact current and future communication infrastructures. Current assisted living scenarios work only in restricted environments and are unable to provide continuous user support. Systems in this space tend to be closed, providing only particular functionality and/or operating on specific infrastructure. Our...

Rationing in the UK National Health Service comes in many forms: there is choosing not to see something as a relative health problem in the first place; there are simple straight decisions not to fund treatments, investigations, preventive measures, etc because of lack of resources at that particular time; there is rationing by reasonable methods of priority setting at national and district lev...

background: attention to worker's health and safety is one of the priorities in health and medical delivery system of iran. this study was to assess health, medical and safety activities in hamadan province industries having more than 50 workers in 1997 . methods: the study group was made up of 3377 workers. for collecting data a questionnaire was provided and sent to the subject industries. he...

Research in the field of mental health has long stressed the high burden of mental disorders, which were found to be among the most disabling health conditions. Furthermore, many countries encounter difficulties in maintaining access to mental health care services due to economic stress and governmental priorities which do not include (mental) health. Therefore, new interventions in mental heal...

In many countries around the world, including Iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme 'personal responsibility for health' policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. This policy may initially seem to improve patients' incentives to fight obesity. But turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...

BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...