Past research suggests that factors related to health care professionals' (HCPs) knowledge, training and competency can contribute to the underutilisation of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care by refugee and migrant women. The aim of this study was to examine the perceived preparedness of HCPs in relation to their knowledge, confidence and training needs when it comes to consulting refug...

Training of Mental Welfare Officers for many years there has been disquiet over the anomalous position of social workers in the Mental Health Services, and the Mackintosh Committee's Report published in 1951, recommended not only that there should be more psychiatric social workers but that a large number of trained mental welfare officers were also required. These Officers employed by Local He...

BACKGROUND Eighty per cent of Malawi's 8 million children live in rural areas, and there is an extensive tiered health system infrastructure from village health clinics to district hospitals which refers patients to one of the four central hospitals. The clinics and district hospitals are staffed by nurses, non-physician clinicians and recently qualified doctors. There are 16 paediatric special...

BACKGROUND The 'resource readiness' of health facilities to provide effective services is captured in the structure component of the classical Donabedian paradigm often used for assessment of the quality of care in the health sector. Periodic inventories are commonly used to confirm the presence (or absence) of equipment or drugs by physical observation or by asking those in charge to indicate ...

An efficient Telehealth system for Tonga is currently but a dream. The kingdom of Tonga consists of 36 inhabited islands occupying 669 kms2 and a population of 97,784 (1996). There is a referral hospital in the Capital and three other district hospitals, 14 peripheral health centres, 32 maternal child health clinics and eight general practitioners. Within the kingdom the use of the telephone, t...

a University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA b Ghana Health Service, Sekyere Kumawu District Health Directorate, Kumawu, Ghana c Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Science and Technology School of Medical Sciences, Kumasi, Ghana d Ghana Health Service, Bosomtwe District Health Directorate, Bosomtwe, Ghana e Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan Sc...

This article reviews the results of a survey of California law enforcement agencies, designed to assess the experience of these agencies with mentally ill offenders (MIOs) and the training of their officers to interact with this population. The results suggest that most law enforcement officers are given insufficient training to identify, manage, and appropriately refer the MIOs they are increa...

BACKGROUND The 2-year internship period for medical graduates began in South Africa in 2005 and has never been formally evaluated. OBJECTIVE This study assessed the perceptions of community service medical officers (COSMOs) working at district hospitals (DHs) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) to determine whether the 2-year internship programme had adequately prepared them for community service (CS). ...

Evaluation is a systematic process that aims to collect, analyze, and present useful information has benchmarks, the results of these evaluations can be used make policies. Based on data from Siak District Health Office in 2020 15 Puskesmas Regency, lowest for elderly utilizing Elderly Service Perawang Center with 184 (14.09%). The purpose study was analyze Program Work Area Center. type resear...

BACKGROUND Emergency Department (ED) medical officers are often the first medical responders to emergencies in Jamaica because pre-hospital emergency response services are not universally available. Over the past decade, several new ED training opportunities have been introduced locally. Their precise impact on the health care system in Jamaica has not yet been evaluated. We sought to determine...