OBJECTIVES Young people in Tanzania are known to access reproductive health services from a range of close-to-community providers outside formal health settings such as drug stores, village AIDS committees, traditional healers and traditional birth attendants (TBAs). However, questions remain about the quality of services such agents provide. This study investigated their capacity to provide ad...

The need for oral health services among patients with HIV, especially those in advanced stages of disease and those who smoke, has been well documented. Patients receiving HIV-related home care services provide an opportunity for assessment of oral health and smoking cessation needs; however, the majority of home care providers lack formal training to provide these services, thus interprofessio...

Cost-sharing rules for paying physicians have been advanced as a way of generating incentives for the provision of quality care, while recognizing their potential negative effects on production efficiency. However, the optimal sharing rate typically depends on the degree to which the physician acts in the interest of the patient, what we identify as the physician's altruism. Since the degree of...

The poor physical health of adults with serious mental illnesses is a public health crisis. Greater integration of mental health and primary medical care services at the clinic and system levels could address this need. In New York state, there are several ongoing initiatives that promote integrated care for adults with serious mental illness, provided or coordinated by community mental health ...

Administrative Record Systems may be an overlooked source of data for health services researchers. Through its administration of the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) routinely receives data on items such as its beneficiary population, providers certified to deliver care to its beneficiary population, providers certified to deliver care to the benef...

OBJECTIVE To study the utilization of services of Health care providers among patients presenting to Family Physicians in a teaching hospital in Karachi. METHODOLOGY It was a cross sectional study. A questionnaire was developed to collect patient's utilization of services of health care providers. The investigators administered the questionnaire to 387 patients, after purpose of the study was...

BACKGROUND The Philippines has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and recently passed domestic legislation protecting the sexual and reproductive rights of people with disability. However women in the Philippines continue to report barriers to sexual and reproductive health services, and there is limited empirical evidence available to inform polic...

Why do parents and providers of primary care and other child and family services need to partner to improve care coordination services for young children? Ensuring and coordinating services that support young children’s healthy development requires strong and effective partnerships between families and health care providers. The effectiveness of each provider recommendation and/ or referral dep...

Jha, P. 2017. ‘Two Sides of a Coin’. Quality of Childbirth Services in Indian Public Health Facilities, from the Perspectives of Women and their Care Providers. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1384. 82 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0110-5. Background: Skilled birth attendance, usually available by promoting chi...

background: preconceptional care is very effective to ensure mothers and babies health during and after pregnancy. the clinics and health center personnel are able to offer preconceptional care especially to the risky cases. learning about the experiences of health center personnel in such cases is useful for others to find solutions for the same problems which may come up. this study tends to ...