introduction: health tourism is an organized travel we make from where we live to another place to keep, regain, and improve physical and mental health. it can be also a national strategy to improve national income and some believe that it can be an integral part of national security. the present study is an attempt to determine the relationship between observance of the standards of internatio...

BACKGROUND Access to comprehensive and quality health care services is difficult for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in rural regions. Barriers to health care for rural Latinos include lack of insurance, language barriers and cultural differences. For the Latino immigrant population in rural areas, barriers to access are compounded. HEALTH NEEDS OF RURAL AREAS THE CASE OF WALHALLA, SC:...

to estimate the prevalence and analyze factors associated with both public and private health services utilization in women population in a western district of iran.a cross-sectional study with 1200 individuals aged 18-49 years carried out in different districts of sanandaj city, western iran, in 2012. the main outcome variable was use of health service in the previous 12 months. the in-depende...

The National Health Service (NHS) has to provide a dynamic and responsive health care system with a workforce that can cope with frequent organizational change. To achieve this, the NHS must have clinicians who can demonstrate leadership skills and act as role models at all levels of health care provision. The outdated health care service that works on strong paternalistic and controlling princ...

There has been increased global concern about the human rights violations experienced by people with mental disorders. The aim of this study was to analyse Uganda's mental health care system through a human rights lens. A survey of the existing mental health system in Uganda was conducted using the WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems. In addition, 62 interviews and six focus gro...

Health care services and systems throughout the world are in trouble and the proportion of expenditures devoted to health care is increasing rapidly. In addition to that, an increasing number of citizens is dissatisfied with the health services they receive and worry about the ability of the system to provide universally accessible care. One possibility to help to solve these problems is the ad...

OBJECTIVE This article describes the experience of the aval ciudadano "Citizens' Representative" (CR) in improving the Mexican health care system. METHODS This is a qualitative study which took place in eight Mexican states in 2008. It evaluates different aspects of a nationwide program to increase the quality of health care services (National Crusade for Quality in Health Services). The Mexi...

Access to quality care is essential for improved health outcomes. Decentralization improves access to healthcare services at lower levels of care, but it does not dismantle structural, funding and programming restrictions to access, resulting in inequity and inequality in population health. Unlike decentralization, Commonization Model of care reduces health inequalities and inequity, dismantles...