to determine the coverage rate, timeliness and quality of ante-natal care in rural areas under the coverage of health houses in west azerbaijan province, 30 health houses (hh) were randomly selected out of 731 hh in the province. in each hh, using the method of lot quality assurance sampling (lqas) 28 women having recently born babies was selected. data were collected using check-list for facil...

BACKGROUND: Research indicating that people increasingly prefer to die at home suggests that palliative care is likely to play a more prominent role in the future of Canada's health care system. Unfortunately, at a time when research evidence should be informing policy and service delivery, little is known about health service utilization by Canadians at the end of life. One existing mechanism ...

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background: households’ financial protection against health payments and expenditures and equity in utilization of health care services are of the most important tasks of governments. this study aims to measuring equity in household’s health care payments according to fairness in financial contribution (ffc) and kakwani indices in tehran-iran, 2013. methods: this cross-sectional study was condu...

Very limited funds are available for expenditure on drugs in the public health sector in most African countries. For example, in Zimbabwe during the 1994–95 fiscal year, about US$5 was spent in the public sector on drugs and supplies per person. Ensuring the optimal use of these limited funds is one of the major challenges facing health managers. The study described in this paper aimed to evalu...

BACKGROUND This study describes a method for combining health and social services data on service provision to develop a framework for monitoring eligibility and service criteria as an aid to development and joint care planning in an inner city area. METHODS The population studied was all residents of the London Borough of Wandsworth aged 18 and over in receipt of social services and/or commu...

conclusions although the majority of women had pcc records and received advice from healthcare professionals to carry out pchbs, most of them did not adhere to the pchb guideline recommendations. it is therefore suggested that strategies should be adopted to establish pcc services in the healthcare system and encourage clients to adhere to the pchb guideline recommended by the ministry of healt...