Unveiling the ABCs: Identifying India's Healthcare Service Gaps

Identifying Gaps in Health Service Provision: GIS Approaches

Identifying Temporary and Permanent Gaps in Universal Service

This article examines the nature of the gap in household telephone penetration among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. By analyzing historic and current penetration levels of the radio, television, and telephone, it suggests that most information technology gaps are amalgamations of smaller socioeconomic trends and can be discerned and reduced only with careful historical analysis of both technolo...

Factors Influencing Healthcare Service Quality

Background The main purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence healthcare quality in the Iranian context.   Methods Exploratory in-depth individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 222 healthcare stakeholders including healthcare providers, managers, policy-makers, and payers to identify factors affecting the quality of healthcare services provided in Iranian hea...

Assessing Post-Stroke Outpatients’ Rehabilitation Service Quality Gaps in Bangladesh

Objectives: The majority (80%) of stroke survivors in Bangladesh have lived with either minor or major physical, emotional, and cognitive disabilities. Due to patients’ poor perceived experience in healthcare services, participation in rehabilitation care has become a significant challenge for them. Consequently, it increases the burden of stroke disability. Therefore, this study aimed to measu...

u-Healthcare: The Next Healthcare Service Paradigm

This paper presents a study of the comparison of different healthcare services to identify the characteristics and of a pervasive and ubiquitous healthcare system which is described as the healthcare provided for home based and moving patients that could enable remote and continuous monitoring and medical services anywhere and anytime. The study has identified the different classification of he...