What are “health” and “oral health”?

Oral Health Manpower - What are Ghana's requirements?

Efficiency measurement of health care organizations: What models are used?

Background: Literature abounds with various techniques for efficiency measurement of health care organizations (HCOs), which should be used cautiously and appropriately. The present study aimed at discovering the rules regulating the interplay among the number of inputs, outputs, and decision- making units (DMUs) and identifying all methods used for the measurement of Iranian HCOs and criticall...

Health System Resilience: What Are We Talking About? A Scoping Review Mapping Characteristics and Keywords

Background Health systems are based on 6 functions that need to work together at all times to effectively deliver safe and quality health services. These functions are vulnerable to shocks and changes; if a health system is unable to withstand the pressure from a shock, it may cease to function or collapse. The concept of resilience has been introduced with the goal of strengthening healt...

What are health utilities ?

G Measuring health utilities involves two main steps: defining a set of health states of interest, and valuing those health states. There are direct or indirect methods of utility valuation. G The methods that have been used to collect data on utilities include the standard gamble approach, the time trade-off approach and the visual analogue approach. G The main indirect methods of utility meas...

Oral Health Literacy and Oral Health Behavior of Senior Medical and Pharmacy Students

Background and Aim: Oral health literacy plays an important role in oral health promotion. This study aimed to assess the level of oral health literacy of senior medical and pharmacy students. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on senior medical and pharmacy students (n=300) of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2015. The oral health literacy-adult questionna...