faced with the challenges of healthcare reform, skills and new capabilities are needed to support the reform and it is of crucial importance in africa where shortages affects the health system resilience. edwards et al provides a good example of the challenge of implementing a mentoring program in one province in a sub-saharan country. from this example, various aspects of strengthening the cap...

Customer orientation is one of the new approaches which is recently considered by the Iranian Healthcare Centers. The present study aims to identify the main factors of customer orientation in Iranian hospitals. The study is done through analysis of a questionnaire designed after recognition of the main variables. Iranian Social Security Organization Hospitals (the major governmental health ins...

1 Laboratory of Applied Entomology Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations (CBGP), UMR 1062, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, 3 Laboratoire Dynamique de la Biodiversité, UMR CNRS 5172, Université Paul Sabatier...

Connected health devices are generally designed for unsupervised use, by non-healthcare professionals, facilitating independent control of the individuals own healthcare. Older adults are major users of such devices and are a population significantly increasing in size. This group presents challenges due to the wide spectrum of capabilities and attitudes towards technology. The fit between capa...

Abstract Background In the past several decades, conflicting discourses have coexisted in field of intersex studies, including pathologizing discourse biomedical disciplines and affirmative, subjective psychosocial people born with bodies their advocates. Intersex activists call for a positive humanistic healthcare approach that accepts protects bodily autonomy change continuing harmful, trauma...