background vertically oriented global health initiatives (ghis) addressing the hiv/aids epidemic, including the president’s emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar), have successfully contributed to reducing hiv/aids related morbidity and mortality. however, there is still debate about whether these disease-specific programs have improved or harmed health systems overall, especially with respect...

BACKGROUND Mobile health (mHealth) has the potential to solve human resource issues in the health care sector. mHealth is of particular interest in developing countries, where widespread mobile networks and access to devices are connecting people like never before. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper was to review published and unpublished literature, field projects, and pilot studies on mHealth ...

background: preconception counseling is preventive medicine in obstetrics. preconception care creates an opportunity for examining conditions before pregnancy improving pregnancy outcome. this study was conducted with the aim of determining the adaptation rate of preconception care with the national standards at health care centers, ahvaz, 2014. methods: this descriptive study was conducted at ...

background: according to the important role of health care apprentice program on medical students’ performance, especially in relation with social accountability of medical education, it is attempted to assess efficacy of health care apprentice program on the level of medical students’ knowledge and skills in the context of primary health care at babol university of medial sciences    methods: ...

objective: to assess the availability of trauma care services in a district referral hospital of southern india. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed during 2013 in a tertiary healthcare centre in southern indian. a detailed assessment of trauma care services was done in a 400 bed speciality hospital which is an apex referral hospital in the public health system using a che...

in 2010, the united states adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the affordable care act (aca). implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. the controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most u.s. cit...

objective: this study aims at conducting a systematic review of the researches performed to determine case finding rates throughout the integration of mental health services into phc over recent twenty years . method : through electronic search, major national and international databases including pubmed, psychinfo, and embase were investigated. all original studies and researches in persian or...

extract today home health care is implementing in many countries. in iran, because of increasing population growth and hospital investments, home health care is not avoidable. home health care not only causes decreasing length of hospitalization and rapid offloading of hospital's beds for the use of other patients, but also presenting direct health services in home based on individual need...