background headache is one of the most prevalent investigated complaints in the neurology clinics and is the most common pain-related complaint worldwide. stress is a significant factor that causes and triggers headaches. since healthcare practitioners experience a lot of stress in their careers, they are more prone to headaches. objectives this study was designed to evaluate and compares the e...

background: world health organization (who) defines three goals to assess the performance of a health system: the state of health, fairness in financial contribution and responsiveness. we assessed the responsiveness of health system for patients with diabetes in a defined population cohort in tehran, iran. methods: total responsiveness and eight domains (prompt attention, dignity, communicatio...

medical mobilities offer both opportunities and challenges. this tension follows the same ratio as many other historic fora, but offers at the same time a sustainable equilibrium. multi-disciplines are, therefore, the key to the medical lifeworld for the global health and well-being of transnational health users around the globe.

recent disclosures of failures of care in the national health service (nhs) in england have led to debates about compassion deficits disallowing health professionals to provide high quality responsive care. while the link between high quality care and compassion is often taken for granted, it is less obvious how compassion – often originating in the individual’s emotional response – can become ...

introduction: methodologically correct assessment of patient satisfaction (ps) plays a crucial role for quality-improvement purposes. evaluation of iranian literature on emergency department’s ps resulted in an emerging need for developing a new instrument with satisfactory psychometric properties. the present study, aimed to develop and initially validate a scale to measure ps in emergency dep...

conclusions considering the high rate of occupational injuries, further preventive measures should be implemented to prevent these injuries from occurring. providing initial and continuing training for employees is very important. directing special attention to emergency department employees may be effective in reducing occupational injuries. results the results showed that only 50.2% of injuri...

nasal mupirocin is found to eradicate effectively methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) from colonized patients, but there are concerns about resistant strains. the aim of this study was to detect the mupirocin resistance and nasal carriage of methicillin resistant s. aureus among healthcare workers (hcws) at the university hospitals of tehran.totally 270 nasal swabs were collected...

leadership, as mcdonald (1)argues, is a phenomenon which many people involved in healthcare around the globe put great emphasis on today; some even see the improvement of leadership as a panacea for all the ills of their healthcare system. this brief commentary on her work seeks to supplement the points she makes by emphasising the personalattractions leadership enjoys, at least in the eyes of ...

Sweden and Spain experiment with different provider models to reform healthcare provision. Both models have in common that they extend the role of the for-profit sector in healthcare. As the analysis of Saltman and Duran demonstrates, privatisation is an ambiguous and contested strategy that is used for quite different purposes. In our comment, we emphasize that their analysis leaves questions ...

Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view. Forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. Translation of externally generated i...