BACKGROUND Private facilities are the first place of care seeking for many sick children. Involving these facilities in child health interventions may provide opportunities to improve child welfare. The objective of this study was to assess the potential of rural and urban private facilities in diagnostic capabilities, operations and human resource in the management of malaria, pneumonia and di...

Paid sick leave is an important employer-provided benefit that helps people obtain health care for themselves and their dependents. But paid sick leave is not universally available to US workers. Little is known about paid sick leave and its relationship to health behaviors. Contrary to public health goals to reduce the spread of illness, our findings indicate that in 2013 both full- and part-t...

OBJECTIVE To study the effects on sick leave from an early multidisciplinary assessment at a primary health care centre. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Patients who saw GPs at a primary health care centre in mid-Sweden and asked for a sickness certificate for psychiatric or musculoskeletal diagnoses were invited to participate. Patients included were sick-listed for less than f...

background & aim: women experience various changes in their transition into motherhood and feel stressed while facing new challenges in this period. high levels of stress may prevent mothers from realizing their maternal role. in this study, we aimed to explore the effects of training on the stress of primiparous mothers. methods:in this quasi-experimental intervention, 100 pregnant women were ...

it is best to be considered father, mother and children health instead of mother and children health, because of health of children is related to father and mother health. also the health of children should be considered before birth and even before the boys and girls get married.  so youth should be received necessary education for becoming a father, mother and nurturing healthy children. impl...

More and more seriously ill children are being admitted to intensive care units due to advances in life-saving technology. As a result, feelings of anxiety and unexpected family problems may arise. Critical illness and accidents often occur without warning and there is little time for family members to prepare for this experience. Apart from the unpredictability of the immediate health outcomes...

Introduction Missed opportunities and barriers to vaccination limit progress toward achieving high immunization coverage and other global immunization goals. Little is known about vaccination practices contributing to missed opportunities and barriers among private healthcare providers in Africa. Methods Service Provision Assessments (SPA) of representative samples of health facilities in fou...

BACKGROUND Several studies have shown considerable differences in the way that physicians prescribe sick leave. The aim of this study was to examine the sick leave prescribing practices of occupational health care physicians and factors affecting these practices. METHODS A questionnaire study with 19 hypothetical patient cases was conducted among 356 Finnish occupational health care physician...