Background: Although cancer is the disease for which people need palliative care most, number of diseases and conditions requiring has increased will continue to grow. Palliative improves health, reduces unnecessary hospitalization as well overuse health services. There are several barriers access main those related public such as: lack awareness care, on their benefits; cultural social barriers.

INTRODUCTION Chronic health conditions are considered ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSC) when the illness is controllable with effective and timely outpatient care that can potentially prevent the need for hospitalizations. Hospitalization rates for ACSC serve as an indicator of the access to and quality of primary care for chronic conditions. Standard methods to calculate hospitalizat...

introduction: according to millennium development goal (mdg) number 4, child mortality should be reduced by two thirds by 2015.  the focus has been on decreasing neonatal deaths in high-mortality countries. in this study, we assessed the recorded causes of neonatal hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) and infant care wards. methods: the present cross-sectional study was ca...