background: the effect of health status on productivity has widely been studied and discussed in literature. valid and reliable tools are needed to evaluate the levels of health and productivity and provide detailed information, before any intervention is implemented. world health organization health and work performance questionnaire (hpq) is a widely used instrument in estimating the workplac...

Eye health is available, but not yet to everyone. The new World Health Organization (WHO) action plan calls for ‘universal eye health’, a new framework to scale up services and expand access to all. ‘Towards Universal Eye Health: A Global Action Plan 2014–2019’ was unanimously adopted by the 194 member states at the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the WHO. The International A...

As a group of Health System Impact (HSI) postdoctoral fellows, Sim and colleagues offer their reflections on ‘driving change’ within the health system and present a framework for understanding the HSI fellow as an embedded researcher. Our commentary offers a different perspective of the fellow’s role by highlighting the integrated knowledge translation (IKT) approach we...

Despite a renewed focus in the field of global health on strengthening health systems, inadequate attention has been directed to a key ingredient of high-performing health systems: management. We aimed to develop the argument that management – defined here as the process of achieving predetermined objectives through human, financial, and technical resources – is a cross-cutting function necessa...

Background Over the past few decades diabetes has emerged as an important non-communicable disease in SubSaharan Africa (SSA). Sight loss from Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) can be prevented with screening and early treatment. The objective of this paper is to outline the required actions and considerations in the planning and development of DR screening services.   Methods A multiple-case study app...

the access to health information for all people is the fundamental goal of the world health organization (who). it comes tr ue when both health professionals and patients as beneficiaries have access to health information. medical librarians play an important role in facilitating access to health information, and this role should be in the context and framework of scientific principles. the pri...

Objective: International Diabetes Organization estimates that there are 285 million people worldwide who suffer from diabetes, and this figure is expected to increase to 450 million in next 20 years. According to statistics issued by the World Health Organization, diabetes is considered among ten leading causes of death in world and its prevalence in the population is growing.This paper deals w...

introduction the preservation and promotion of the health in children who are one of the most vulnerable parts in any society has an important role in the health system of each country. in this study, the socioeconomic factors affecting the infant mortality in eastern mediterranean regional office (emro) countries have been examined during the time period from 2000 to 2013. materials and method...