PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.

The role of social support networks in public health and health service utilization among the elderly

Background and Objective:Study the Effect of Supportive-Social Ties Onthe General Health of Elderlise it’s an Introduction to Decrease use of health service in Elderlise by Social Approach's of Iran. Method: this study is descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional survey on the statistical sample of 356Elderlise in1390 with the multistage cluster method and the relative category technique fro...

National Service Frameworks: promoting the public health.

In 1998 the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health argued that the new millennium requires a journal of the times bringing together the strands of public health—the science and art, policy and practice. At around the same time the Department of Health for England announced the National Service Framework (NSF) programme, a programme to transform the way services are delivered for patients ...

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service.

Public Health Service grants to construct health facilities.

GRANT PROGRAMS designed to stimulate and support the building of health facil¬ ities have grown markedly in terms of both kind and volume of construction aided. In 1946 the first Public Health Service construction grant program, the Hospital Survey and Construction (Hill-Burton) Act, was passed. The initial authorization was $75 million for fiscal year 1948. Until the enactment of the Health Re...

Public versus private health care in a national health service.

This paper studies the interaction between public and private health care provision in a National Health Service (NHS), with free public care and costly private care. The health authority decides whether or not to allow private provision and sets the public sector remuneration. The physicians allocate their time (effort) in the public and (if allowed) in the private sector based on the public w...