BACKGROUND Person-centred care (PCC) is increasingly advocated as a new way of delivering health care, but there is little evidence that it is widely practised. The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) was set up in 2010 to develop and implement person-centred care in clinical practice on the basis of three routines. These routines are based on eliciting the patient's ...

background india’s economic growth rate in recent years has been fairly impressive. but, it has been consistently failing to make considerable progress in achieving health related millennium development goal (mdg) targets. lack of coherence between provisions and utilization becomes the face of the problem. inadequacies in outreach, access and affordability coupled with escalating healthcare co...

introduction: partnership working plays an important role in the health system, results in delivery of coordinated packages of services to patients, and reduces the impact of organizational fragmentation. method: the study aimed to determine the relationship between partnership working and productivity in the employees of a university of medical sciences in the south of iran. results: according...

background global health partnerships have grown rapidly in number and scope, yet there has been less emphasis on their evaluation. gavi, the vaccine alliance, is one such public-private partnership; in gavi-eligible countries partnerships are dynamic networks of immunization actors who work together to support all stages and aspects of gavi support. this paper describes a conceptual framework ...

the study is focused on the public-private partnership in health sector in sri lanka. as a developing country, sri lanka faces a challenging task in order to improve the infrastructure facilities of the country after ending the thirty years of war. there is a requirement to develop the country as a whole along with all the industries such as education, health, transport, agriculture, etc. to me...

OBJECTIVE The Quebec Plan d'action en santé mentale (PASM) (Mental Health Action Plan) reform, a major transformation of the province's mental health care system, has put primary care rather than hospital-based care at the forefront of mental health service delivery. This study documents perceptions of changes in child and youth mental health (CYMH) services following the reform, as well as fac...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the mental health of men and women with differing histories of partnership transitions. DESIGN Data from nine waves of the British Household Panel Survey, a stratified general population sample, were used to calculate age standardised ratios and 95% confidence intervals for mean General Health Questionnaire scores for groups with different partnership transition hi...