background and objectives: induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

BACKGROUND Family physicians are critical to reproductive health care provision. Previous studies have evaluated the immediate impact of training family physicians in abortion and reproductive health care but have not conducted long-term follow-up of those trained. METHODS In a cross-sectional survey performed in 2009, all 2003--2008 graduates from four family medicine residency programs with...

access to the right to the highest attainable level of health is a constitutional right that obliges governments and other players to take step to increase all individuals' chances of obtaining good health. at the least, health and education are two crucial requirements for this as well. iran's vision 2025 is going to lead the country to a developed state with the highest rank of economic, scie...

Objective: Family Planning is often taken as one of the "Magic Bullet" interventions owing to its high impact and wide reaching nature in achieving multiple goals. This study aimed to assess the current status and the factors associated with health post level Implanon service provision through trained health extension workers in Wolaita zone, southern Ethiopia. Materials and methods: A cross se...

The provision and financing of health care are basic issues that every country must address. In principle, a country's health care can be both provided and financed either entirely publicly, or entirely privately (including by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)). Indeed, private provision of health care is attractive because it reduces the government's fiscal burden, and because it may encour...

background: motivation is a driver to health worker performance in most ghanaian hospitals. in view of this, ghana’s ministry of health has rolled out enough motivational policies to accentuate work performance of health workers. objective: the focus of this study was to examine the impact of motivation and identify how intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors affect the work performance of h...