background given the rapid pace of changes in community health needs and the mission of healthcare organizations to provide and promote the community’s health, the growing need to increase health system responsiveness to people as a key element of observance and fulfillment of justice is felt more than ever. results confirmatory factor analysis, based on the results of the key informant survey ...

background: lack of access to health services has been mentioned as one of the main causes of health inequity in health system. the aim of this study was to measure horizontal inequity in access to outpatient services in shiraz. method: this household survey was conducted among 1608 participants above 18 years in shiraz in 2012. four-stage sampling was used. according to high amount of zero-val...

BACKGROUND The measurement of consumer satisfaction is an essential part of the assessment of health care services in terms of service quality and health care system responsiveness. Studies across Europe have described various strategies health care users employ to secure services with good quality and quick access. In Central and Eastern European countries, such strategies also include informa...

BACKGROUND lack of access to health services has been mentioned as one of the main causes of health inequity in health system. The aim of this study was to measure horizontal inequity in access to outpatient services in Shiraz. METHODS This household survey was conducted among 1608 participants above 18 years in Shiraz in 2012. Four-stage sampling was used. According to high amount of zero-va...

Many experimental trials of community mental health interventions fail to develop testable conceptual models of the specific mechanisms and pathways by which relevant outcomes may occur, thus falling short of usefully interpreting what happens inside the experimental "black box." This paper describes a conceptual model of involuntary outpatient commitment (OPC) for persons with severe and persi...

OBJECTIVES As access of women to mental health services has become increasingly important, empirical research has begun to examine the determinants of mental health care utilization across gender. This article examines the effect of being an extreme minority on utilization of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health services by female veterans. METHODS Data were collected on a representativ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate evidence of the effectiveness of computer-generated health behavior interventions-clinical encounters "in absentia"-as extensions of face-to-face patient care in an ambulatory setting. DATA SOURCES Systematic electronic database and manual searches of multiple sources (1996-1999) plus search for gray literature were conducted to identify clinical trials using computer-ge...