The Thai government has implemented universal coverage of health insurance since October 2001. Universal access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs has also been included since October 2003. These two policies have greatly increased the demand for health services and human resources for health, particularly among public health care providers. After the 1997 economic crisis, private health care provid...

Disconnects and defects in care – such as duplication, poor integration between services or avoidable adverse events – are costly to the health system and potentially harmful to patients and families. For patients living with multiple chronic conditions, such disconnects can be particularly detrimental. Lean is an approach to optimizing value by reducing waste (eg, duplication and defects) and ...

INTRODUCTION Community health needs assessments (CHNA) are completed to meet varied regulatory and statutory requirements for local public health departments, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) hospitals, and Federally Qualified Health Centers. Although compliance is a motivating factor, these entities are committed to understanding the communities they serve and to developing strategies to address health ne...

Utilizing community-based methods, we assessed the behavioral and physical health needs of a Detroit metropolitan Indian health clinic. The project goal was to identify health service needs for urban American Indians/Alaska Natives and develop the infrastructure for culturally competent and integrative behavioral and physical health care. We conducted 38 semi-structured interviews and 12 focus ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate service demand (willingness to seek or use services) for respite care among informal, primary carers of people with a psychological disability and to describe their characteristics. METHODS Analysis of data from the household component of the 2009 Survey of Disability Ageing and Carers (n=64,213 persons). RESULTS In Australia in 2009, 1.0% of people aged 15 years or ov...

BACKGROUND Health literacy is a multi-dimensional concept comprising a range of cognitive, affective, social, and personal skills and attributes. This paper describes the research and development protocol for a large communities-based collaborative project in Victoria, Australia that aims to identify and respond to health literacy issues for people with chronic conditions. The project, called O...

Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of adolescents' health and that the first step in designing a comprehensive health plan is to assess the needs of the target group, this study was conducted to determine the health needs of adolescents in Aran-Bidgol City, Iran. Methods: This Cross-sectional-analytical study was performed on 497 students (265 girls and 232 boys) aged 12-18...

Introduction: There has been an increasing number of studies that have evidenced the profile male morbidity and mortality, their causes related consequences, association with low demand men's permanence in services offered Primary Health Care (PHC). Objective: The objective study was to map literature on health situation Care. Methods: A scoping review, according Joanna Briggs Institute protoco...