background and purpose: considering that health care training centers’ teachers are one of the main elements of human-force training for rural health care system in the country, it is essential to improve knowledge and skills. the purpose of this study was to explain educational needs of teachers in our country in behvarz training centers. methods: this is a qualitative and a needs assessment s...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to explore the technical efficiency (TE) of the Iranian rural primary healthcare (PHC) system for diabetes treatment coverage rate using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) as well as to examine the strength and significance of the effect of human resources density on diabetes treatment. METHODS In the SFA model diabetes treatment coverage rate, as a output, is a fun...

Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) have been a major health problem in Iran. In order to train primary health workers (Behvarz) the diagnosis of visible goiter, two methods were compared. I: With head and neck in normal position; II: With extended neck. Behvarzes in 29 rural health centers in Ghazvin were trained method I an d30 were trained method II. 1541 school children in Ghazvin and 1532 in...

from 22 may 1976 to 19 february 1977 out of 27742 patients which were referred to health and social welfare network of west azerbaijan in chonqralu (field laboratory of school of public health and institute of public health research in health services development research project in iran), 22693 (81.81%) simple cases were managed by the behvarz (female front line health worker), in nine health ...

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is introducing a longitudinal integrated clerkship for third year students in the Primary Care-Population Medicine Program as an alternative to more traditional clerkship models. In developing the longitudinal integrated clerkship, program faculty incorporated a historical perspective of medical education, modern knowledge about students' dev...