Public Medical Services under Title XIII of the National Health Bill

The Public and the Mental Health Bill

How far will the Government's new Mental Health Bill help this process of enlightenment? Will some think we are going too far in eroding safeguards which have protected society in the past? To what extent will this new legislation enable us to get better mental health services? What opportunities will it offer the nonprofessional who wishes to play his or her part in helping to solve this probl...

The Public Medical Services

Medical Tourism and the Libyan National Health Services

Medical tourism is a term that is used frequently by the media and travel agencies as a catchall phrase to describe a process where people travel to other countries to obtain medical, dental, and/or surgical care [1,2]. Leisure aspects of traveling are usually included on such a medical travel trip [1]. The term is also used to describe a situation where doctors travel to other places to delive...

Public Health - the 'black hole' in Indian Medical Services.

Consultant Physician and Director Medical Education, P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and MRC, Mumbai, Maharashtra Received: 18.03.2016; Accepted: 10.06.2016 class was quite the reverse. People flocked into towns and cities in search of jobs . Overcrowding followed, slums sprang up, garbage and filth accumulated, sickness with serious infectious diseases like tuberculosis escalated, cholera outbr...

Building the national health information infrastructure for personal health, health care services, public health, and research

BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...