Oral health assessment in school program health: who and how?

School Oral Health Program in Kuwait

The School Oral Health Program (SOHP), Kuwait, is a joint venture between the Ministry of Health, Kuwait, and Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Mass., USA. This program provides oral health education, prevention and treatment to almost 280,000 public school children in Kuwait. Services are delivered through a system of center- and school-based clinics and preventive mobile teams. One of the recent ...

Assessment of students’ perspectives about master of public health program in medical school of Shiraz University

Introduction: Integration of public health and medicaleducation has been thought to have an important role in medicalstudents’ training. Shiraz University of Medical Sciences hasdeveloped an MD/MPH dual degree educational program forthe talented volunteer students. The aim of this study was toassess the students’ viewpoints about various aspects of ShirazMD/MPH program.Methods: This cross-secti...

Selecting a school-based oral health care program.

Knowledge in health technology assessment: who, what, how?

Health systems are placing more and more emphasis on designing and delivering services that are focused on the patient, and there is a growing interest in patient aspects of health policy research and health technology assessment (HTA). Only a few HTA agencies use and invest in scientific methods to generate knowledge and evidence about the patient aspects of a given technology. This raises que...

Parental assessment of access and barriers to oral and dental health services in the elementry school children in Rasht

Introduction:Equal access and distribution of services among all people is one of the main objectives of health services and patient satisfaction is an important factor in evaluating these objectives. This study aims to investigate the access and satisfaction of elementary school children to dental services in Rasht. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, first, we d...