background avante zambéziais an initiative of a non-governmental organization (ngo), friends in global health, llc (fgh) and the vanderbilt institute for global health (vigh) to provide technical assistance to the mozambican ministry of health (moh) in rural zambézia province. avante zambézia developed a district level health management mentorship (hmm) program to strengthen health systems in t...

conclusions de-stress training program significantly decreased the stress of mothers with show paced children, and the training effect was persistent. results data presented a significant difference between the control and experiment groups. also, results did not show a significant difference between the post-test and follow up. it means that the effect of training was persistent. background ha...

the school environment is an environment wherein a student spends one third of his life with teachers and other students. in the present study, the safety levels of governmental and non-governmental schools were studied and compared. in a descriptive cross-sectional study we assessed schools safety using fire and life safety inspection checklist presented by the national fire prevention agency ...

International collaboration is growing exponentially (1) and researchers from different institutions and countries increasingly work together as consortia focused around specific research questions. Such consortia are especially valuable for international health research because they offer interdisciplinary expertise and allow recruitment of patients in different settings (2). Establishing rese...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the models Philip Morris (PM) and British American Tobacco (BAT) used internally to understand tobacco control non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their relationship to the global tobacco control policy-making process that resulted in the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). METHODS Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents in the Legacy Tobacco Do...

Accreditation, as an approach to quality assurance and improvement, has a hundred-year history in the United States. Other countries have started to establish such systems in the past twenty years. Recently, we have witnessed numerous discussions and some practical steps toward establishing accreditation systems in Iran. A major practical challenge for such newer accreditation systems is that...

BACKGROUND Increased availability and accessibility of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has improved the length and quality of life amongst people living with HIV/AIDS. This has changed the landscape for care from episodic to long-term care that requires more monitoring of adherence. This has led to increased demand on human resources, a major problem for most ART programs. This paper presents expe...