background: infants are the most vulnerable people with special needs in natural disasters. since midwives are responsible for providing reproductive health services to infants in disastrous situations, assessing their professional competence is of great importance. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in tehran, iran. a total of 361 midwives were selected by cluster ...

introduction: the perceived lean services are definite type of the therapy services that patients’ needs are responded based on information about how to receive services in hospitals and medical centers. the present study aimed to determine the relationship between availability of patients’ therapy information management infrastructures and perceived lean services to find suitable model. method...

background: agility means ability to respond and react quickly and successfully to environmental changes. agility is an important factor for hospital effectiveness. agility in a hospital indicates the hospital's responsiveness when faced with internal and external changes. if hospitals are designed to be agile, they should have the ability to compete with other hospitals and provide appropriate...

A national oral health pathfinder survey has been conducted by our research team in Turkey, in collaboration with the WHO European Region. Some of the data obtained by this survey were for CPITN values for age groups above 10 years, and can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text) These findings demonstrate that preventive periodontal therapy and community-based prophylaxis methods, will u...

This article provides a brief overview of research perspectives on rural mental health services and suggests the importance of building an agenda to bring coherence to studies in this area. The need for sound theory and methodology to guide research is emphasized. The importance of better conceptualization of the rural context as a focus of research is addressed, and 14 propositions concerning ...

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 ...

Sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents are being rolled out in Nepal, but many young people have yet to benefit. Shiva Raj Mishra reports.

This paper describes and analyses the major reforms and changes that have occurred in the rural health sector of China. Key findings from a number of empirical studies on reproductive health service provision and utilization are summarized in order to assess the implications for reproductive health services of the ongoing health reform. The focus of this paper is what has actually been happenin...

Associations between ward climate and patient characteristics in a secure forensic mental health service Geoffrey L. Dickens, Mareike Suesse, Pieter Snyman & Marco Picchioni a St Andrew’s Healthcare, Research Department, St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton, UK b Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science, King’s College London, UK c St Andrew’s, Men’s Service, St Andrew’s Hospital, Nor...