background and purpose: to determine an appropriate financial model for the health system of iran, several studies have been conducted. but it seems that these studies were not comprehensive and further investigation is required. so to design a valid and enforceable mechanism, the study of policy interventions will be considered through consensus of all stakeholders. this investigation was done...

OBJECTIVES The movement of skilled physicians from the public to the private sector is a key constraint to achieving universal health coverage and is currently affecting health systems worldwide. This systematic review aims to assess factors influencing physicians' choice of workplace, and policy interventions for retaining physicians in the public sector. METHODS Five literature databases we...

OBJECTIVES To identify and describe the responsibilities attributed to health administrations in preventing and addressing violence against women in the international legislation on this issue. METHODS We carried out a content analysis of the laws on violence against women collected in the following legal databases: the Annual Review of Law of Harvard University, the United Nations' Secretary...

There is a growing trend across the social sciences to engage with archives. Within human geography, this has stimulated debate about nature of archives, including moving from considering "archive as source" subject." We build on and extend thinking, suggesting that an even more active appreciation dynamic relationships between researchers, owners records, archival material needed. This paper d...

Following a decade of energy sector reforms in many developing countries, people are increasingly questioning how much these reforms have benefited the poor. That question has proved difficult to answer, in part because of the lack of a framework for thinking about the issue and in part because of a shortage of suitable data. This chapter proposes a methodology for measuring the impact of inter...

This document summarises what is currently known about the nature and scale of occupational skin disease amongst hairdressers and barbers and gives a brief overview of the characteristics of the industry; it reviews the available evidence for the causes of skin disase in this occupational sector; and finally, lays out some of the interventions that have been tried for this sector in two other E...