background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...

Information privacy is a major concern of internet users; however, online vendors need information provided by consumers to sell products and services. This work proposes three essays to explore online privacy behavior of internet users. The first essay examines the role of personal dispositions in impacting information sensitivity, privacy concern, and trust in the context of providing health ...

background: underutilization of mental health care services has been a challenge for the health care providers for many years. this challenge could be met in part by improving the clients’ readiness to use such services. this study aimed to introduce the important aspects of the clients’ readiness to use mental health services in the iranian context. materials and methods: a thematic analysis o...

introduction: the internal evaluation is a process to improve the quality of the education using the collection and judgment of data. considering some principles about educational measurement and data collection causes better recognizing of this process. in this study, we conducted the internal evaluation of department of health care management, school of allied medical sciences in tehran unive...

conclusions the findings indicated that society associates reproductive health issues with sexual relations, which in turn shapes the stigma and places limitations on unmarried women for using reproductive health services. thus, while reproductive health services are planned and provided to unmarried women, strategies are demanded for overcoming this stigma. objectives this paper explores the c...

conclusions the results of this study indicated that effective dental care is needed for improvement of the dental health status of hospitalized patients with psychiatric disorders. background psychiatric disorders to various reasons such side effects of psychiatric drugs, poor oral hygiene and poor diet and are known as risk factors for development oral health problems. objectives this study w...

A varying proportion of health services in all societies is delivered by public sector institutions. Managing these public sector service institutions for performance represents a major management challenge. This management challenge is amplified for South Africa as a country which is contemplating major changes while being simultaneously confronted with having to cope with problematic results ...

Public Health in Glasgow, 1905-1946, by ALEXANDER MACGREGOR, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1967, pp. xi, 175, illus., 25s. Od. The lifetime of professional work which Sir Alexander Macgregor spent in Glasgow saw the transformation of the city from a major centre of disease and death to a place nearly 'as healthy as the country', in the prophetic words of Dr. James Russell, an earli...

OBJECTIVES The article provides an overview of current trends in personal sensor, signal and imaging informatics, that are based on emerging mobile computing and communications technologies enclosed in a smartphone and enabling the provision of personal, pervasive health informatics services. METHODS The article reviews examples of these trends from the PubMed and Google scholar literature se...