World Immunization Week 2016 is April 24–30. Coincidentally, on April 4 the Philippines launched a dengue immunization program targeting more than 1 million schoolchildren using the world's first dengue vaccine, CYD-TDV (Dengvaxia®). It took more than 20 years of research and development, including two Phase 3 clinical trials involving over 35,000 participants aged 2–16 years, for this new vacc...

background quality of health services is one of the most important factors for delivery of these services. regarding the importance and vital role of quality in the health sector, a concept known as “clinical governance” (cg) has been introduced into the health area which aims to enhance quality of health services. thus, this study aimed to assess private and public hospitals’ readiness to impl...