the instrumental use of social networks has become a central tenet of international health policy and advocacy since the millennium project. in asking, ‘how to facilitate social contagion?’, karl blanchet of the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine therefore reflects not only on the recent success, but also hints to growing challenges; the tactics of partnerships, alliances and platfo...

providing and promoting the health is one of the most fundamental human social evolution dimensions, that perhaps more than other aspects of development needs public cooperation. health volunteers are pioneers who have volunteered to step in providing and improving community health. the present study determines the role of health volunteers in maternal indicators of pakdasht health network. thi...

increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (pmh) services in the netherlands. decentralized under the (community) participation act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” but innovation, even when pressure for c...

background: this study explores the level of occupational stress and main sources of occupational and personal stress among rural health workers (rhw) of the health network of mashhad district. method: the first part of the occupational stress inventory (osi) (called the occupational roles questionnaire (orq)) was used to measure the rural health workers occupational stress (n=172). a number of...

Background: Stewardship, resource generation, financing, and providing services are the 4 main functions in any health system. Using intelligence and common sense in making policies and decisions is a subcomponent of the stewardship. The present study aimed at designing a model that provides better access to the stakeholders’ wisdom.    Methods: This was a qualitative study in ...

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. Social network analysis can provi...

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