aims: general practitioners have an essential role in patient care and are exposed to high levels of job stress. general practitioners’ mental health has effects on their functional abilities and medical managements. this study was carried out to evaluate the mental health of general practitioners in emergency wards in kashan university of medical sciences, iran. materials & methods: in this cr...

Health care is one of the greatest concerns in India. While, those living in cities and big towns have access to high end health services, the millions of people living in rural India, particularly in the remote parts of the country face problems of inadequate facilities and poor access to healthcare. Many experts, including researchers, policy makers and practitioners identified that, there is...

BACKGROUND Research within the framework of Self-Determination Theory (SDT) indicates that patients' autonomy is to be considered a critical health care outcome in its own right since it promotes improved mental and physical health. This paper presents an analysis of studies addressing communication and interaction interventions in health literacy curricula for medical and health care practitio...

Although children with medically complex illness represent less than one percent of the total pediatric population, their health care expenditures and health care system utilization far exceed the numbers of other pediatric patients. Nurse practitioners, with their educational background focused on health care promotion and education, are uniquely qualified to reduce this inequity with cost eff...

introduction : general practitioners (gps) have the main responsibility in medical and particularly palliative care provision in most of countries, though this is not the current case in iran. development of 'family physician' approach in rural and most of the urban areas in iran, gps will have the main role in care provision. there is no formal palliative care education during general medical ...

PUBLIC health practitioners seem to be suffering an identity crisis. Perhaps they have felt ignored and under-funded for so long that they are eager to latch onto anything that includes the word "health." Or perhaps some public health practitioners understand that health care receives 94% of the health services dollars with only 3 % going to public health, so they mistakenly think they should b...