introduction: given growing elderly population and high prevalence of oral and dental diseases in this age group, this study was conducted to investigate oral health status and related quality of life among older adults in yazd located in central iran. methods: the cross sectional study was carried out on 210 elderly people aged ≥ 60 years under the guise of yazd health care centers who entered...

please cite this article as : heidarnia ma, ghaemian t, montazeri a, abadi ar. evaluation of the relation between poverty and health-related quality of life in the people over 60 years-old in the district 4 of tehran municipality in 2009-2010. novel biomed 2013;1:23-28. as the articles in recent years well indicate, more than all other factors, social determinants of health are involved in peop...

objective: there are disparities in mental health services (mhs) utilization within and between populations and several factors are studied as its potential correlates. identifying those correlates would help health policy makers to adjust service provision with characteristics of their community. to evaluate demographic, socioeconomic and system correlates of mhs utilization among married wome...

background and objectives: induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

conclusion depressed pregnant women had a lower quality of life. the proper management of depression during pregnancy can improve the quality of life in women. it is recommended that antenatal services integrate screening for depression into routine antenatal care. results the findings showed that there was an inverse relationship between quality of life and depression in pregnancy (p = 0.0001)...

Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures and validated instruments have become integral in assessing the quality of healthcare delivery, including pharmaceutical care services. The Pharmacy Services Questionnaire (PSQ) measures patient satisfaction with pharmaceutical care. In this study, we developed a modified Korean version of the PSQ (PSQ-K) and evaluated its validity and reliability. The PS...

background india’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   methods in this paper, i tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...

introduction: health information plays a vital role in managers' decision making and planning. health information in the form of medical records is also useful for caregivers, quality assessment, financial payments, legal measures, education, research and planning. in this study, to examine the managers and personnel's viewpoints about the application of medical records. methods and material: i...