BACKGROUND Universal health care coverage has been identified as a promising strategy for improving hypertension treatment and control rates in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Yet, even when quality care is accessible, poor adherence can compromise treatment outcomes. To provide information for adherence support interventions, this study explored what low income patients who received hypertension car...

INTRODUCTION The Targeted Subsidies Law (TSL) was implemented in 2010 with a platform of improving equity in the Iran's society. One of the objectives of the TSL was improving equity in Healthcare Financing (HCF), but a significant change has not occurred since then. The aim of this study was to analyze the challenges of the TSL to equity in the HCF in Iran. METHODS In this interpretive quali...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this principle-based concept analysis was to analyze caring in nursing education and to explain the current state of the science based on epistemologic, pragmatic, linguistic, and logical philosophical principles. METHODS A principle-based concept analysis method was used to analyze the nursing literature. The dataset included 46 English language studies, published fro...

INTRODUCTION Disparities in access to transplantation have been well documented. The extant literature, however, focuses largely on disparities and related barriers for African-American patients and none has used the steps to transplantation as a guiding framework. This review will catalogue disparities in the steps to transplantation as well as the barriers and facilitators to completion of ea...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of dementia is increasing among non-western immigrants. It is known that family care is provided relatively often among immigrant groups. Until now, however, relatively little was known about how relatives of people with dementia in the immigrant communities perceive family care. This study therefore focuses on describing the perspectives of female Turkish, Moroccan an...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Background: Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in Asian countries, especially in Iran. The current solution, to increase survival and reduce complications, is the early diagnosis of breast cancer. However, fear of the disease is a deterrent to adopting preventive modes of behavior. This study aims to explore the fears faced by healthy women in Yazd, Iran. It also l...

BACKGROUND Male circumcision (MC) has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition among heterosexual men, with WHO recommending MC as an essential component of comprehensive HIV prevention programs in high prevalence settings since 2007. While Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a current prevalence of only 1%, the high rates of sexually transmissible diseases and the extensive, but unregulated, pr...

Bu çalışma Türkiye’deki Suriyeli göçmen işçilerin iş sağlığı ve güvenliğini incelemektedir. Temel amaç, etkileyen faktörlerin neler olduğunu tespit etmektir. Çalışmada nitel veri toplama yöntemlerinden doküman incelemesi ile toplanan veriler içerik analizi çözümlenmiştir. İçerik analizinde Maxqda 2020 analiz programı kullanılmıştır. 31 adet (4 üst kod 27 alt kod) içeriksel başlık/alt başlıkta k...

Over the last two decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been regarded as obligatory rather than voluntary. The literature review suggests that these activities provide benefits such increasing sales, developing companies' positive image, reducing costs, protecting environment, and many other issues. However, it is questionable whether valid for all sectors platforms. In this sense,...

Kent yönetiminde stratejik yönetim yaklaşımının uygulanması, o kent için gelecekte ulaşılmak istenen amaç ve hedeflerin belirlenmesinin yanı sıra ilgili kentte yaşayan halkın beklentilerinin saptanması, yönetsel konulara katılımının sağlanması açısından önemli bir konu haline gelmiştir. Diğer taraftan yerel yönetimlerin, bölgesel küresel gelişmeler karşısında gerçekleştirilecek faaliyetler atıl...