Although prepayment schemes are being hailed internationally as part of a solution to health care financing problems in low-income countries, literature has raised problems with such schemes. This paper reports the findings of a study that examined the factors influencing low enrollment in Tanzania's health prepayment schemes (Community Health Fund). The paper argues that district managers had ...

PURPOSE Project Leonardo represented a feasibility study to evaluate the impact of a disease and care management (D&CM) model and of the introduction of "care manager" nurses, trained in this specialized role, into the primary health care system. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty care managers were placed into the offices of 83 general practitioners and family physicians in the Apulia Region of Ita...

Health information management graduates are employed across health, education, corporate and other sectors. Common to all health information management professionals are foundational skills and knowledge in health sciences, information and management. Unique to each individual is their ongoing education and professional development; professional growth motivated by interest, change and/or oppor...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: since, accurate, appropriate, precise, timely, valid information, and valid interpretation of information is required and the basis for policy and decision making and planning in various levels of the organization management, this study was conducted to evaluate the district health information system evolutio...

Shiftwork is one of health care worker's oldest problems and is known to have important implications on health. Health risks are compounded with age and the amount of cumulated shiftwork. No shift system is clearly advantaged, yet the worker's ability to choose the shift system seems to maximize adaptation to shiftwork. When designing a work schedule, it is important to take into consideration ...

OBJECTIVES There is growing interest in implementing hospital-based health technology assessment (HB-HTA) as a tool to facilitate decision making based on a systematic and multidisciplinary assessment of evidence. However, the decision-making process, including the informational needs of hospital decision makers, is not well described. The objective was to review empirical studies analysing the...

In this paper, a collaborative DSS Model for health care systems and results obtained are described. The proposed framework [1] embeds expert knowledge within DSS to provide intelligent decision support, and implements the intelligent DSS using collaboration technologies. The problem space contains several Hub and Spoke networks. Information about such networks is dynamically captured and repre...

1Health Policy Research Center, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IR Iran 2Department of Management, Central Office, Payame-Noor University, Shiraz, IR Iran 3HIV/AIDS Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IR Iran 4School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 5Department of Epidemiology, School of Health a...

Background: Because of the economic crisis and nursing shortage, the situation for hospitals will be demanding throughout the decade in the 2010s. This poses challenges for nursing management. This article focuses on Finnish health care, particularly on nurse managers. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe and analyse future challenges in hospitals in one hospital district in Finland from t...