In 2010, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) asked the RAND Corporation to undertake four studies aimed at improving the economic and social development of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. RAND's work was intended to help the KRG expand access to high-quality education and health care, increase private-sector development and employment for the expanding labor force, and design a data-collectio...

assessing quality of family health services in view points of service users in urmia health posts   nabilou b[1],farokh eslamlou hr[2]*   received: 1 may , 2013 accepted: 2 jul , 2013   abstract background & aims:  community health largely depend on the primary health care sector of each country and primary healthcare including family health, as first contact services have basic role in health ...

The civil war in Lebanon from 1975 to 1992 had a significant negative impact on the public health care system. This paper describes the health care system in Lebanon and its financing as of 2001. The efforts that have been made and are being made to rehabilitate and reform this sector since the end of the war are outlined.

BACKGROUND Over the past two decades, health insurance in Vietnam has expanded nationwide. Concurrently, Vietnam's private health sector has developed rapidly and become an increasingly integral part of the health system. To date, however, little is understood regarding the potential for expanding public-private partnerships to improve health care access and outcomes in Vietnam. OBJECTIVE To ...

AIM To evaluate the quality of antenatal care (ANC) in Hebei Province and compare it between the public and private sector and within the public sector. METHODS We conducted a Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Household Survey in 2010 using a two-stage sampling procedure and included 1079 mothers. The quality of ANC was assessed on the basis of the number of ANC visits, the time of the first...

background: tourniquets used repeatedly on patients for blood sampling are a potential source of nosocomial infections. they harbor numerous microorganisms, including methicillin‑resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa). the aim of this study was to investigate tourniquets for the presence of microorganisms and to ascertain the infection control practices of health care workers. methods: a cross‑...

The aim of this analysis was to assess the impact of chronic back pain and psychological distress on the utilization of primary and secondary levels of care in the ambulatory health care sector in Austria - a country without a gatekeeping system. Additionally, we aimed to determine if the joint effect of chronic back pain and psychological distress was higher than the impact of the sum of the t...

Objective This paper examines and provides an example of the practice environments most likely to nurture nurse practitioner care delivery models and more fully realise the goals of the government’s Primary Health Care Strategy. Setting Non‐government third‐sector primary care organisations flourished in New Zealand during a period of neoliberal reform in the 1990s. Because they tend to serve v...

background and aims: visit quality is a crucial component of patient-physician interaction that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis and treatment efficiency. the waiting time and visit length are important determinants of quality in the outpatient care setting. thus, the aim of this study was to determine waiting time and visit length and to compare them before implementation ...