background: job satisfaction remains as an important concern for both employer and employee. the leaving of work­place and migration to city centers is one of the main results of job dissatisfaction among the primary health care (phc) provid­ers in rural setting of iran, behvarzes. determining the predictor's factors of the phc providers' job dissatisfac­tion and provid­ing appropriate strategi...

A meta-analysis of 13 epidemiological studies shows a prevalence of 5.8% for mental illnesses. Psychiatric morbidity is associated with urban residence, female gender, 35-44 years age group, low socio economic status and nuclear family type. Mental health care facilities are lacking along with a huge gap in professional manpower availability. The available manpower is top heavy and concentrated...

Hospital palliative care programs in the United States are growing in number, scope, and sophistication. The nation's major public-private partnership organization charged with advancing the quality of health care, the National Quality Forum (NQF), developed A Framework for Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality: A Consensus Report. This Framework establishes a set of 38 pr...

The Danish Health Care Quality Programme (DDKM) is a method to generate persistent quality development across the entire health care sector in Denmark. It provides standards for good quality and methods to monitor this quality. The standards are developed in a cooperation between the Danish Institute for Quality and Accreditation in Health Care (IKAS), established in 2005, and representatives o...

Improving access to the formal health care sector is a primary public health goal in many low-income countries. But the returns to this access are unclear, given that the quality of care at public health facilities is often considered inadequate. We exploit temporal and geographic variation in the cost of traveling to formal sector health facilities to show that treatment at these facilities im...

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Tuberculosis care, a clinical function consisting of diagnosis and treatment of persons with the disease, is the core of tuberculosis control, which is a public health function comprising preventive interventions, monitoring and surveill lance, as well as incorporating diagnosis and treatment. Thus, for tuberculosis control to be successful in protecting the health of the public, tuberculosis c...

Given the problematic nature of attempts to reform national delivery systems for health care, the paper reviews the context and logic of reforms in the health sector. After a background on approaches to building capacity within three generations of public sector reforms, it examines the reforms applied to financing, organizing and delivering health services and suggests strategies for reform th...

OBJECTIVE To study the impact of cost of treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) on the preference of men with urethritis to seek care in the informal sector. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A random sample of young men from the general population of Yaoundé and Douala, Cameroon, and of employees of a Yaoundé factory underwent a structured interview on the occurrence of STD-related complaints...