background: one of the important challenges to health service policy makers is conservation of human resources. shortage of human resources in health and care sector damages quality of services. another problem of organizations is low organizational commitment, which may result in poor performance and high costs reflecting improper use of human resources. committed employees set the scene for g...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We present a model for the development of sustainable primary health care in village communities in Honduras through the training and support of community health workers. The model follows a "bottom-up" approach using community-centered data generation, problem-specific curriculum development, and ongoing knowledge maintenance and support for community-based care giver...

Background. Previous research has indicated that there is improvement in pain relief when the staff is more conscious about everyday pain management. Aim. This study was designed to gain insight into the way the personal experience of pain affects the attitude of Health Care Professionals towards pain management. The research was undertaken between May and September 2004. It was conducted in a ...

Infusion therapy is one of the most invasive, complex, and pervasive therapies in the current health care system, yet there is very little investment in organizational knowledge management and intellectual human capital required to maintain patient safety. Catheter complications, fluid and medication errors, inadequate nutritional support, and transfusion of incompatible blood products manifest...

Chronic disease is the most prevalent problem in health care today. It is the most common cause of disability and consumes 78% of health expenditures.1 Caring for patients with chronic disease is very different from caring for acutely ill patients, yet it is not a prominent part of undergraduate medical education.2 Current medical education in chronic illness care does not adequately emphasize ...

Health care is a knowledge-based community that critically depends on knowledge management activities in order to ensure quality. Nurses are primary stakeholders and need to ensure that their information and knowledge needs are being met in such ways that enable them, to improve the quality and efficiency of health care service delivery for all subjects of health care. This paper describes a sy...

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 essential primary health care is delivered through the public health center phc network by public health workers (behvarzs). health workers are exposed to different types of stresses while working. objectives the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of burnout and associated factors among rural health workers in the health centers of birjand university of medical sciences...

recognizing the advantages of primary care as a means of improving the entire health system, this text comments on reforms of publicly funded primary health centers, and the rapid development of private forprofit providers in sweden. many goals and expectations are connected to such reforms, which equally require critical analyses of scarce resources, professional trust/motivation and business ...