Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSRO's) came into being because of the need for our health care delivery system to provide high-quality care at reasonable cost to our country's citizens. All those involved in the system must bear a part of the responsibility for the failures of that system in the past. And, there is no doubt that while our health care system has had many successes,...

BACKGROUND This paper addresses the health care system from a global perspective and the importance of human resources management (HRM) in improving overall patient health outcomes and delivery of health care services. METHODS We explored the published literature and collected data through secondary sources. RESULTS Various key success factors emerge that clearly affect health care practice...

Midwives are primarily considered as professionals with expertise in assisting women before, during, and after childbirth. Thus, the competencies for midwifery defined by International Confederation of revolve principally around assessment provision care to fetus/newborn/infant during pre-pregnancy antenatal periods, laborand birth, postnatal/postpartum periods.1 The availability skilled midwiv...

Due to increasing solid waste generation and their significant impacts on human health, environmental assessment of the management and disposal methods become more and more important. There are various disposal methods which are the combinations that originate from a wide range of solid waste management systems. In this study, municipal waste of Tehran (which totals to 7507.5 tons/day) is asses...

background and objectives: working in hospital is stressful, and this may result in deviant behaviors of clinical staff and thus irreparable damages to the patients’ health. it is, therefore, crucial to empower hospital workers in managing job stress to ensure high quality of healthcare. psychological and social capitals have been shown to influence organizational behaviors of the employees. th...