Reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. Adopted from the Toyota Production System (TPS), the Lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. In the context of health care, Lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to investigate demonstrable impacts of the Mental Health Services Program for Youth (MHSPY), a highly coordinated, intentionally integrated "system of care," on patterns of health service utilization for youth with multiple needs. METHODS The MHSPY intervention is available to a target population of urban youth who face barriers to health care and are at ris...

Generally speaking, the British and the German health care systems differ not only with respect to their financing and service provision arrangements, but also with respect to the underlying governance mechanisms. For the most part, the British health care system and in particular its core, the National Health Service (NHS), is funded out of general taxation. The German health care system, by c...

This paper examines health care reform in urban and rural China. Before health care reform, Chinese health service facilities were run entirely by the state and basically they performed a social welfare function. This health care system greatly improved the population health conditions but many problems started to emerge in 1980s when the economic reform started. Since then, the government has ...

Australian Aborigines have much higher rates of illness and life expectancy up to twenty years lower than the Australian population as a whole. Community based primary health care to Aborigines in the Northern Territory of Australia has historically been under-resourced in part due to distinctive characteristics of the Australian health care funding system which has disadvantaged rural and remo...

OBJECTIVE To review what is currently known about service use by youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and discuss research and policy implications. METHODS Literature review. RESULTS The primary care, mental health, and educational service system sectors all play an essential role in caring for youth with ADHD. Recent studies also suggest increasing use of stimulants a...

background this paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional chinese medicine (tcm) hospitals in china and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (wm) at tcm hospitals.   methods quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of china health statistical yearbook and extracts o...