Home health care and national health policy.

Home Health Care: The Necessity in the Health Policy of Iran

    Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury (1). During last decade, home health care is taken into consideration seriously. The concept of home health care began in the 1850's when traveling health care professionals provided in-home visits to patients in need of health care and unable to seek such care on their own (2). ...

Improving Maternal and Child Healthcare Programme Using Community-Participatory Interventions in Ebonyi State Nigeria

In Nigeria, the government is implementing the Free Maternal and Child Health Care Programme (FMCHCP). The policy is premised on the notion that financial barriers are one of the most important constraints to equitable access and use of skilled maternal and child healthcare. In Ebonyi State, Southeastern Nigeria the FMCHCP is experiencing implementation challenges including: inadequate human re...

Health information technology in support of patient-centered medical homes is low among non-metropolitan family medicine practices.

The term “medical home” has been in use since at least 1967, when the American Academy of Pediatrics published Standards of Child Health Care. It defined medical home care as “accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, and compassionate.” The Future of Family Medicine report, published in 2004, is generally credited with initiating the current national conversations ar...

Including Both Costs and Effects – The Challenge of Using Cost-Effectiveness Data in National-Level Policy-Making: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Equity in the Utilization of Healthcare Services in India: Evidence from National Sample Survey

Background The pursuit of equity in health and healthcare has been the key feature of health policy in India. However, despite the policy significance, the volume of literature available on this issue is scarce. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to examine the horizontal inequities in healthcare utilization, consisting of outpatient and inpatient care in 15 major states and north-eastern regi...