Effective community-level chronic disease prevention is critical to population health within developed and developing nations. Pasos Adelante is a preventive intervention that aims to reduce chronic disease risk with evidence of effectiveness in US-Mexico residing, Mexican origin, participants. This intervention and related ones also implemented with community health workers have been shown to ...

Sustainable development is that which meets the needs of the present without foreclosing the needs or options of the future. Many studies have been published on how to assess sustainability using indicators that describe the different activities that impact on the environment. These can be related to the three pillars of sustainability, ecological, economic and environmental dimensions of devel...

background : a healthy organization is a place that people like to work and they are proud of being a part of it. this study aimed to evaluate the relation between organizational health indicators and organizational effectiveness among employees of isfahan university of medical sciences. methods: this cross – sectional study was done on 672 employees in seven staffs of iums. samples were select...

States and districts are collecting multiple measures of teaching to evaluate teacher effectiveness, but there is limited information about how indicators can be combined to improve inferences about a teacher’s impact on student achievement and about teaching. We derive a statistical model and estimate the parameters of an optimal combined measure of teacher effectiveness using data from the Me...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to describe: (1) pain indicators used by nurses and physicians to assess pain, (2) pain management interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) used by nurses, and (3) indicators used by nurses to verify pain intervention effectiveness. METHODOLOGY A total of 301 medical records of currently admitted patients from six different ICUs in Jorda...

introduction: evaluation of human resources requires proper indicators for its performance measurement. in fact, compiling indexes consider as the basic source of information evaluation. the aim of this study was to compiling the basic human resources indicators in health system to provide enough information to evaluate human resource management in this sector. this work developed by designing ...

BACKGROUND Transparency in diabetes care requires quality indicators that are of interest to stakeholders in order to optimise their usage. Indicator development is often focused on consensus, and little is known about stakeholders' preferences for information on quality. AIM To explore the preferences of consumers, providers, purchasers and policy makers for different quality domains and ind...