OBJECTIVE To investigate the accessibility of medical services for Korean people with spinal cord injury (SCI) compared to the control group (CG) and to evaluate significantly related factors. METHODS A total of 363 community dwelling people with chronic SCI were enrolled and 1,089 age- and sex-matched subjects were randomly selected from the general population as the CG. Self-reported access...

The operational management of healthcare services is expected to directly touch patient experiences. Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) for the first time, as such, has sought to improve the operational management of healthcare delivery within a reform agenda by setting benchmarks for ‘number of visit per hour’ and waiting time in outpatient clinics of about 700 affiliated...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the costs and the effectiveness of an intervention of home visits made by nurses to elderly people versus usual care given by the family medicine units. MATERIAL AND METHODS A sample of 4,777 subjects aged 60 years and over covered by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS) were screened. Those with a systolic and/or diastolic...

This paper explores Community Child Health (CCH) nurses' experience of home visits for new mothers in a health service region of Western Australia. Reported benefits of home visits include improvement in maternal and child health and better parenting skills leading to positive maternal-child interaction. Despite CCH nurses' support for home visits factors such as costs, lack of resources and st...

BACKGROUND Operational research (OR) is the discipline of using models, either quantitative or qualitative, to aid decision-making in complex implementation problems. The methods of OR have been used in healthcare since the 1950s in diverse areas such as emergency medicine and the interface between acute and community care; hospital performance; scheduling and management of patient home visits;...

By this time, the productive age was already overrun by millennials and gen z. Almost every day they do activities so tend to be monotonous saturated. People always need free time refresh their brains themselves from denseness of daily in order get a new spirit carry out future. Making paratourism is choice z today. doing visit, can enjoying tourist facilities natural scenery attraction Indones...

BACKGROUND Aging of the population in all western countries will challenge Emergency Departments (ED) as old patients visit these health services more frequently and present with special needs. The aim of this study is to describe the trend in ED visits by patients aged 85 years and over between 2005 and 2010, and to compare their service use to that of patients aged 65-84 years during this per...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between recent use of dental services, socioeconomic factors and oral health measures among elderly Brazilians. METHODS The sample consisted of elderly individuals aged 65 to 74, who participated in the Brazilian Oral Health Survey in 2010 (Brazil SB-2010). The dependent variable was "recent use of dental services" (last dental visit ≤ 2 years). The indepen...

OBJECTIVE To examine past-year dental visits among underserved, Hispanic farm-worker families using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Utilization, which posits that predisposing, enabling, and need factors influence care-seeking behavior. METHODS Oral health survey and clinical data were collected in 2006-2007 from families in Mendota, California (Fresno County) as part of a la...

INTRODUCTION Little is known about health care and social service professionals' perspective on the acceptability of long-term home-visit programs serving low-income, first-time mothers. This study describes the experiences and perspectives of these community care providers involved with program referrals or service delivery to mothers who participated in the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a t...