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: ...

iran is a large country with a total area of 1,645,000 square kilometers. the country’s population is estimated at about 31 millions. there is an uneven distribution of the population, varying from 2 to 50 per square kilometer. sixty per cent of the total population (18 millions) is living in nearly 66,000 small and large village’s scattered throughout the country. a total of 10,000 physicians ...

abstract background: primary immunodeficiency diseases (pid) are heterogeneous group of inherited disorders mainly characterized by recurrent infections leading to several times hospital admissions. the economic impact of pid is a challenging issue; therefore, this study was designed to determine the medical costs of hospitalizations in this group of patients as an indicator of the direct cost ...

when the japanese government adopted western medicine in the late nineteenth century, it left intact the infrastructure of primary care by giving licenses to the existing practitioners and by initially setting the hurdle for entry into medical school low. public financing of hospitals was kept minimal so that almost all of their revenue came from patient charges. when social health insurance (s...

Introduction: For the past 7 years, a nursing school has conducted biannual medical missions in a virtually inaccessible area in Haiti. Each medical mission team provides primary care, pediatric and gynecological examinations for up to 6 days in the impoverished island nation. Methods: To improve the safety of participants engaged in this humanitarian tra...

objective: to find out the quality of anc in the upazila health complexes (phc centres) of bangladesh. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was done in purposively selected three upazilas among the clients receiving antenatal care (anc). data were collected with questionnaire cum checklist in the context of two aspects of quality issues, namely assessment of physical arrangements f...