Using market mechanisms in the provision of health services and seeing health care as a private good are approaches that have featured prominently in health sector reforms across the world. UNRISD research on global and local experiences of health care commercialization challenges this framework. It calls for reclaiming public policies that promote the purposes that health systems are set up to...

One of the prioritizations in the World Health Organization's (WHO) Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 is the provision of community mental health and social care services, such as supported housing. The ongoing process of such deinstitutionalization has raised issues concerning the impact on users' quality of life. The purpose of this study was to explore how residents in supported housing ex...

Hair loss is a significant and disturbing side-effect of chemotherapy. It affects a number of sociopsychological aspects of cancer patients life especially women. The present study was conducted to understand the experiences of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy in an anthropological context. The data was collected from 118 female cancer patients from the three districts of Punjab (India) ...

The health inequities remain high in India with government and private health expenditures clearly favoring the rich, urban population and organized sector workers and the Out Of Pocket (OOP) spending as high as 80%, afflicting the poor in the worst manner. The focus of the paper is to examine the potential Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) offers to improve the healthcare access to rural...

The state of New Hampshire created a pilot project to integrate preventive oral health care for low-income women and children through local sites of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. This profile details New Hampshire’s experiences and offers considerations for state agencies, federal policymakers, and other interested stakeholders to explore alternative channels for reaching low-i...

Experience within a domain has profound effects on the way a domain is conceptualized. These types of effects, such as experts showing strikingly better memory than novices, have been robustly demonstrated across a wealth of domains. Despite this tradition, the mental health field has had trouble demonstrating benefits for experience. Does this mean that expertise does not develop in mental hea...

The goal of this article is to explore the relations between narratives and mental health from a psychological perspective. We argue that a process of identification with personal experiences underlies narrative structures that are known to be related to mental health. Overidentification and underidentification are described as general processes underlying mental health problems. Gerontological...

The developed and Implemented BONIS system is a surveillance system based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that has been developed to support the National Epidemiological Surveillance System in Paraguay by promoting community involvement in syndromic surveillance. It has been implemented in a primary health care unit named Center for Mutual Aid Association Health for All, (C...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of peer education among university students for reproductive health promotion based on researchers' experiences. methods: this interventional study was conducted in qazvin university of medical science during 2002 to 2004 through stakeholders' partnership and selection of 24 volunteer students according to their knowledge, ...

INTRODUCTION There is evidence that meeting patients' expectations toward health care correlates with involvement in the treatment they receive. The most important patient expectations concern certain types of information: explanation of disease and treatment, health promotion, and improvement in quality of life. Other demands include proper rapport and emotional support. The aim of this paper ...