background: health-care-associated infections are a major threat to the safety of patient care. control of such problem is a major criterion for hospital accreditation. this study was aimed to determine the developing use of chemical (class 6 products) and biological indicators in tabriz district hospitals since 1997 to 2011. methods: we conducted this time-trend interventional study with all o...

Seatbelt legalisation was implemented in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January 1999. This provided the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of the legislation in the Eastern District of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the UAE by establishing levels of injury severity from motor vehicle crashes (MVC) before and after the legislation and the rate of compliance with the legislation. Data were obtain...

OBJECTIVE The cost burden (called full cost) of providing health services at a referral, a district and a mission hospital in Ghana were determined. METHODS Standard cost-finding and cost analysis tools recommended by World Health Organization are used to analyse 2002 and 2003 hospital data. Full cost centre costs were computed by taking into account cash and non-cash expenses and allocating ...

BACKGROUND There is a growing awareness of the importance of surgical disease within global health. We hypothesised that surgical disease in low income countries predominantly affects young adults and may therefore have a significant economic impact. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed all surgical admission data from two rural government district hospitals in two different sub-Saharan Africa...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of hypertension in South Africa has been estimated to be 20% of the adult population with over six million people being affected. Poor adherence to treatment plans lead to inadequate blood pressure control and high morbidity. Many studies have looked at factors contributing to poor blood pressure control in South Africa but few studies actually focus on district hospit...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. District hospitals (DHs) play a central role in district-based health systems, and their relation with vertical programmes is very important. Studies on the impact of vertical programmes on DHs are rare. This study aims to fill this gap. Its purpose is to analyse the interaction between the National Tuberculosi...

Institutional care is a growing component of health care costs in low- and middle-income countries, but local health planners in these countries have inadequate knowledge of the costs of different medical services. In India, greater utilisation of hospital services is driven both by rising incomes and by government insurance programmes that cover the cost of inpatient services; however, there i...

Singal R*, Garg LN**, Singal RP***, Gupta S****, Shahi SR *****, Singal S******, Singh B******* * Department of Surgery, Maharishi Markandeshwer Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Distt-Ambala, Haryana **Department of Otolaryngology (ENT), Maharishi Markandeshwer Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Distt-Ambala, Haryana *** Department of Orthopedics, C/o Dr. K...

Concern for venereal disease (VD) in Uganda led to the building of a special hospital in 1912-13 to provide treatment. This was later to become the national reference hospital, now called Mulago Hospital. Within a few years more VD treatment centers operated by trained indigenous clinical assistants were opened. These centers formed the basis of the future expansion of the general medical se...