BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a serious chronic disease and an important public health issue. This study aimed to identify the predominant culture within the Palestinian Primary Healthcare Centers of the Ministry of Health (PHC-MoH) and the Primary Healthcare Centers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (PHC-UNRWA) by using the competing values framework (...

BACKGROUND Chronic diseases (CD) are a public health emergency in Mexico. Despite concern regarding the financial burden of CDs in the country, economic studies have focused only on diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. Furthermore, these estimated financial burdens were based on hypothetical epidemiology models or ideal healthcare scenarios. The present study estimates the annual expenditure per...

The diagnosis of chronic migraine implies that a patient has a history of migraine headaches and that he/she now is experiencing headache at least 15 days out of the month. Chronic migraine is common, afflicting about 1 in 50 citizens. Effective management of chronic migraine involves prescription of a daily preventive medicine intended to decrease headache frequency; aggressive acute treatment...

change is the greatest. Indeed, in that orientation the C3 hydroxyl group is directed toward the acetamido group (rather than away from it), and the intramolecular interactions stabilizing such an orientation would become more significant as the solvent polarity is lowered. Evidence supporting such a hypothesis, independent of the present theoretical model, is presented in Table 11, which displ...

Clinical audits monitor the use of particular interventions, or the care received by patients, against agreed standards. Any departures from "best practice" can then be examined, and causes can be determined and acted upon. The Ministry of Health (MOH), Jamaica, has recently published standards of care for hypertension. The medical records of a convenience sample of 125 hypertensive patients be...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the degree of involvement of general dental practitioners working in primary health care centers of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Kuwait in tobacco cessation activities. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A survey questionnaire composed of 48 structured multiple choice questions aimed at assessing practitioner knowledge, attitudes, perceived expectations, confiden...

The scope of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of obstetricians and obstetric nurses about folic acid in the prevention of neural tube defects (NTD). A cross-sectional study was conducted in which 118 volunteers (95 physicians and 23 nurses) answered a questionnaire with 21 questions about prevention of NTD. The data were analyzed according to the reported knowledge, the recommendations ...