background: the dependency ratio (dr) is defined as the ratio of the non-working population to the economically active population. dependency ratio is calculated by the sum of population under fifteen years and over 65 years divided by 15-64 year old population. the interpretation of dr variation gives us the impact of health care services and some reproductive interventions. this study analyze...

abstract background: committing an error is part of the human nature. no health care provider, despite the mastery of their skills, is immune from committing it. medical error in the labor and obstetrics wards as well as other health units is inevitable and reduces the quality of health care, leading to accident. sometimes these events, like the death of mother, fetus, and newborn, would be bey...

background: standard cares in substance abuse treatment centers (satc) have an important role in treatment success achievement. patients’ views will provide valuable information to improve the performance of these centers. the purpose of current study was to determine patients’ comments on quality of addiction treatment at satcs. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013. the st...

AIM This study aimed to determine the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of pediatric forensic cases to contribute to the literature and to preventive health care services. MATERIAL AND METHODS Pediatric forensic cases hospitalized in our pediatric intensive care unit below the age of 17 years were reviewed retrospectively (January 2009-June 2014) . The patients were evaluated in tw...

background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...

OBJECTIVE To address the mental health needs of youths who are arrested and detained in Illinois, an initiative was designed and implemented that identified youths with psychotic or affective disorders, linked them to community services, and monitored their cases. This study assessed whether such linkage is possible and whether it improves clinical and forensic outcomes. METHOD S: Under the i...

background: underutilization of mental health care services has been a challenge for the health care providers for many years. this challenge could be met in part by improving the clients’ readiness to use such services. this study aimed to introduce the important aspects of the clients’ readiness to use mental health services in the iranian context. materials and methods: a thematic analysis o...

introduction: the internal evaluation is a process to improve the quality of the education using the collection and judgment of data. considering some principles about educational measurement and data collection causes better recognizing of this process. in this study, we conducted the internal evaluation of department of health care management, school of allied medical sciences in tehran unive...

conclusions the findings indicated that society associates reproductive health issues with sexual relations, which in turn shapes the stigma and places limitations on unmarried women for using reproductive health services. thus, while reproductive health services are planned and provided to unmarried women, strategies are demanded for overcoming this stigma. objectives this paper explores the c...