INTRODUCTION This survey aimed to investigate German ambulatory physicians' opinions about mandatory continuing medical education (CME) and CME resources shortly before the introduction of mandatory CME in 2004. METHODS A structured national telephone survey of general practitioners and specialists was conducted. Main outcome measures were opinions about mandatory CME, preferred CME media, an...

Purpose: Considering the role of quality of educational services in the growth and development of society, the present study was conducted to the aim of identifying the factors effecting on assessing the quality of educational services in education. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation was qualitative. The research community included documents ...

BACKGROUND The threat of maternal mortality can be reduced by increasing use of maternal health services. Maternal death and access to maternal health care services are inequitable in low and middle income countries.The aim of this study is to assess associated paternal factors and degree of inequity in access to maternal health care service utilization. METHODS Analysis illustrates on a cros...

Ensuring access to high quality health care in remote and rural settings is particularly challenging. Remote and rural communities require health service models that are designed in and for these settings, and care provided by health practitioners with the requisite knowledge and skills responsive to people's health needs. Studies in many countries have shown that the three factors most strongl...

Changes in technology and social-economic conditions have influence on the education and training in photogrammetry and related fields. From a European point of view the present situation is analyzed and possible future developments are discussed. E-learning will play an important role in the continuing professional development as well as in the education at universities. The education at unive...

BACKGROUND Adolescent health is regarded as central to global health goals. Investments made in adolescent health and health services protect the improvements witnessed in child health. Though Saudi Arabia has a large adolescent population, adolescent health-care only began to emerge in recent years, yet widespread uptake has been very limited. Health-care providers are key in addressing and pr...

BACKGROUND Telehealth, as other information and communication technologies (ICTs) introduced to support the delivery of health care services, is considered as a means to answer many of the imperatives currently challenging health care systems. In Canada, many telehealth projects are taking place, mostly targeting rural, remote or isolated populations. So far, various telehealth applications hav...

The human resources crisis in Africa is especially acute in the public health field. Through distance education, the School of Public Health of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, has provided access to master's level public health education for health professionals from more than 20 African countries while they remain in post. Since 2000, interest has increased overwhelmingly to ...

This paper reviews the evidence on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) in light of the policy and programme commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), analyses progress since 1994, and maps challenges in and opportunities for protecting their health and human rights. Fin...

In 2010, an interorganizational effort among the American Psychological Association, the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, and the Council of Chairs of Training Councils, known as the Health Service Psychology Education Collaborative (HSPEC), was initiated to address mounting concerns related to education and training for the professional practice of psychology. Given that professi...