BACKGROUND The NHS Choices website (www.nhs.uk) provides data on the opening hours of general practices in England. If the data are accurate, they could be used to examine the benefits of extended hours. AIM To determine whether online data on the opening times of general practices in England are accurate regarding the number of hours in which GPs provide face-to-face consultations. DESIGN ...

BACKGROUND There have been many studies showing the variable quality of Internet health information and it has often been assumed that patients will blindly follow this and frequently come to harm. There have also been reports of problems for doctors and health services following patient Internet use, but their frequency has not been quantified. However, there have been no large, rigorous surve...

BACKGROUND Low- and middle-income countries are currently facing the massive public health challenge of road traffic injuries. The lack of effective surveillance systems hinders proper assessment of epidemiologic status and intervention priorities. The objective of our study was to estimate the mortality and morbidity attributable to road crashes in Bamako, Mali using the capture-recapture meth...

There is a large literature on the determinants of organizational performance, and its multi-dimensional nature is well-recognized. However, little research examines how different organizational and environmental factors influence different stakeholders’ performance assessments of the same service. We address this gap by comparing the factors influencing performance evaluations by different con...

AIM To assess the application of the Oral Impacts on Daily Performances (OIDP) index for use in three different language and cultural settings; OBJECTIVES To develop a Spanish and Afrikaans version of the OIDP for use in the USA and South Africa and to assess its reliability and validity in three counties: UK, USA and South Africa. DESIGN Co-ordinated pilot studies using the OIDP questionna...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the attributes of primary health care as for access; longitudinality; comprehensiveness; coordination; family counseling and community counseling in the Family Health Strategy, triangulating and comparing the views of stakeholders involved in the care process. METHOD evaluative research with a quantitative approach and cross-sectional design. Data collected using the Pri...

OBJECTIVES In order to estimate the prevalence of influenza like illness (ILI) in adults from all state capitals and geographic regions in Brazil, a periodical monitoring of ILI cases by the national telephone survey (VIGITEL) was carried out in 2010. METHOD A cross-sectional study with 47,876 telephone interviews in the state capitals and Federal District, a probabilistic sample of adult pop...

a bstract background: self‑esteem is known to be one of the most important markers of successful aging. older people’s self‑esteem is influenced by several factors that particularly may be health related. therefore, this study aimed to explore some important general health‑related predictors of the older people’s self‑esteem.   materials and methods: in this study, 200 people, aged 65 years and...

background: health system research (hsr) is system planning, coordination, monitoring and management of research resources and activities to achieve health and justice. as the main members of the health system, general practitioners (gps) play an important role in access to health care goals. the aim of the present study was to assess knowledge, attitude, and performance of gps in rafsanjan, ir...