One of the most urgent problems confronting the National Health Service is that of providing sufficient nursing staff. It will be possible to maintain the hospitals at the existing level of efficiency only if it is possible to provide enough adequately trained nurses in future years. To a large extent the quality and quantity of the nursing staffs, as of the Health Service in general, must depe...

The Master's Thesis Advisory Committee, as representatives of the faculty, certifies that this thesis has met all standards of excellence and scholarship as determined by the faculty. In presenting this thesis as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the advanced degree from Georgia State University, I agree that the library of Georgia State University shall make it available for inspecti...

BACKGROUND Economic transition which took place in China over the last three decades, has led to a rapid marketization of the health care sector. Today inequity in health and poverty resulting from major illness has become a serious problem in rural areas of China. Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) is a health assistance scheme that helps rural poor people cope with major illness and alleviate...

BACKGROUND One of the biggest obstacles to developing policies in cancer care in Southeast Asia is lack of reliable data on disease burden and economic consequences. In 2012, we instigated a study of new cancer patients in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region - the Asean CosTs In ONcology (ACTION) study - to assess the economic impact of cancer. METHODS The ACTION study i...

This paper studies the efficacy of China’s financial reforms in helping the central monetary authority to achieve its goals of macroeconomic stabilization. A local–local monetary game is presented which examines the investment competition between local governments in different hypothetical financial settings. It is shown that direct means of credit control and indirect instruments of monetary p...

Date iii Acknowledgements This master's program was only made possible through organizations and particular individuals that supported and offered me necessary assistance. I would like to use this opportunity to express my gratitude to everyone who supported me throughout this MPH program. My first acknowledgements go to the Fulbright Program and the Institute of International Education (IIE) f...

This study is aimed at determining the effect of managerial human factors on business performance of hospital services. For this purpose a neural networks-based model is employed. A checklist tool for evaluation of human factors from management viewpoint was applied. It consists of input checklist items like role of hospital top management, employee relations, process management and data collec...

background and objectives: accreditation is a widely used mechanism to keep organization adherent to the established standards. the aim of the study was to identify barriers towards promotion of accreditation in the iranian hospitals, and exploring the potential overcoming strategies.   methods: a qualitative study design was adopted. data were collected using a questionnaire with open question...