Even though solid waste management has become a major public health and environmental concern in urban areas of Ethiopia, only 2% of the population receive solid waste management services. The primary objective of this study is to assess solid waste management practices of Bahir Dar City. The technique of multistage random sampling has been employed to draw 350 households for this study, with b...

today, information technology services are considered as valuable resources in all areas. for making information technology management processes purposeful and efficient in different organizations – as a competitive and strategic advantage (especially in organizations responsible for health care services) – it is necessary to recognize the level of maturity of the organization and review its pr...

relationship between performance indicators and hospital evaluation score at hospitals affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences     sadeghifar j [1] , ashrafrezaee n [2] , hamouzadeh p* [3] , [4] , taghavi shahri sm [5] , shams l [6]    received: 19 feb, 2011 accepted: 20 june, 2011  abstract   background & aims: hospitals have a key role in providing health services as the main eleme...

background: quality management is one of the most effective strategies for improving the health systems performance in developed and developing countries. the main goal of this study was identifying the most important aspects of quality management and preparing an appropriate model for health system. method: this research was a comparative study on quality management models in the health system...

a: Tabriz Health Service Management Research Centre, Department of Health Service Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran b: Injury epidemiology and prevention research centre, Tabriz University of medical sciences, Tabriz, Iran c: WHO collaborating centre on safe community promotion, Stockholm, Sweden d: Department of Healt...

introduction: management is a specialized science and most of the health managers are not familiar with scientific management methods and direct their organization on the basis of their own experiences and assumptions, it is necessary to devise comprehensive educational programs according to the results of needs assessment in order to promote the quality of health care services. materials and m...