CONTEXT In July 2005 the National Rural Health Alliance released a discussion paper on advanced nursing practice in rural and remote areas of Australia. The paper called for more debate and research about advanced nursing practice roles, especially on how the roles contribute to quality care and patient health outcomes. Monash University School of Rural Health, Victoria, Australia, completed tw...

Aday et al. (1) have defined access as those dimensions that describe the potential and actual, or realized, entry of a given population into the health care delivery system. Access to health care depends on many factors, such as race, culture, geographic location, financial and insurance status. For numerous reasons, equal access for all citizens to health care services in the United States ha...

BACKGROUND Access to adequate health services that is of acceptable quality is important in the move towards universal health coverage. However, previous studies have revealed inequities in health care utilisation in the favour of the rich. Further, those with the greatest need for health services are not getting a fair share. In Zambia, though equity in access is extolled in government documen...

With this paper, five key domains of advocacy, clinical care and health promotion, education and health services delivery, workforce and professional development, and research are identified. All five require attention in order to reach the overarching goal of health equity for adolescents and young adults. SAHM believes that achieving health equity is related to its organizational mission and ...

The health of a nation can be measured by its health care system and it strongly depends upon country’s health policy and strategical planning. Globally health care industry is undergoing a rapid change and is confronting the challenges of shift in demographics and emergence of chronic diseases which is resulting in higher cost of health care delivery. Countries worldwide are scrutinizing their...

BACKGROUND India has one of the most extensive health infrastructures- a three-tier hierarchical referral system- for the provision of effective and efficient health services to the majority of its population. In this study we have tried to evaluate the utilization of such a wide health infrastructure and the various factors affecting it. We have also tried to find the factors that motivated th...

BACKGROUND The importance of strengthening maternal health services as a preventive intervention for morbidities and complications during pregnancy and delivery in developing countries cannot be over-emphasised, since use of prenatal health services improves maternal health outcomes. AIM This study investigated differences in risk factors for maternal complications in booked and unbooked preg...

BACKGROUND Mobile phone technology is utilized for better delivery of health services worldwide. In low-and-middle income countries mobile phones are now ubiquitous. Thus leveraging mHealth applications in health sector is becoming popular rapidly in these countries. To assess the effectiveness of the Continuum of Care Services (CCS) mHealth platform in terms of strengthening the delivery of ma...