BACKGROUND Israel has boasted a highly effective national quality monitoring program for community-based health services since 2004. The program involves ongoing monitoring of the quality of selected services provided by Israeli health plans and includes approximately 70 indicators. OBJECTIVE To analyze Israeli primary care physicians' (PCPs) perceptions of nurses' roles in the national quali...

BACKGROUND Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become a huge public health concern in developing countries. Many resource-poor countries facing this growing epidemic, however, lack systems for an organized and comprehensive response to NCDs. Lack of NCD national policy, strategies, treatment guidelines and surveillance and monitoring systems are features of health systems in many deve...

BACKGROUND Implementing complex nutrition and other public health projects and tracking nutrition interventions, such as women's diet and supplementation and infant and young child feeding practices, requires reliable routine data to identify potential program gaps and to monitor trends in behaviors in real time. However, current monitoring and evaluation practices generally do not create an en...

  Background :Growth retardation in children is a result of nutritional ignorance, inappropriate care, and inadequate monitoring of growth monitoring. This study was performed to assess the effect of mothers education program based on the precede model on the mean weight of children (6-12 months)   at health centers in Shiraz, Fars Province.   Methods : This quasi experimental study was conduct...

Volume 38, Number 1, March 2012 Bharat Ban is specialist and team leader for monitoring and evaluation, Sujan Karki is program officer for monitoring and evaluation and Ashoke Shrestha is project director, all at the Nepal Family Health Program, Kathmandu. Stephen Hodgins is technical director for the Maternal Child Health Integrated Program, John Snow, Inc., Washington, DC. By Bharat Ban, Suja...

A model-bssed beam orbit simulation program has been used successfully to analyze the beam energy errors 'at the two-mile linear accelerator during commissioning of the SLC system. Thii simulation program has also been used to develop a nondestructive beam energy error monitoring system. The method of tUdyBi8, the simulation program, and a beam energy analysis and monitoring system using expert...

This paper describes a distributed performance monitoring system for a transputer-based multiprocessor, Hathi-2. The monitoring system allows the programmer to measure how well a parallel program utilizes the hardware resources of the multiprocessor system, i.e., the processor CPU’s and communication links, during program execution. It can be used for identifying performance bottlenecks in para...

this study investigated the impact of using the technique of self-monitoring on non-academic efl learners’ composition writing. fifty female students studying english at navid english institute in shiraz, iran were chosen based on the results of a proficiency test. they were all 16-20 years old and were intermediate learners of english who were divided into two control and experimental groups a...