When assessing the health benefits of increased education in less developed countries, many researchers have been concerned about the omission of important determinants of an individual's education from the models. The study presented here shows that one should also be concerned about the limitations of the individual-level perspective. According to a multilevel discrete-time hazard model estim...

Effective quality assurance actfvftfes that improve the delivery of health services to the publfc are of particular concern to the American College of Physicians. The College is committed to mafntafnfng hfgh standards of quality in the delivery of health services and believes that quality assurance mechanisms can be an effective means for achieving this goal. Some of the College's efforts to en...

Medical education is a leading step in improving the quality of health services all over the world; in recent years such an important issue has changed tremendously. New concepts and theories were introduced particularly in undergraduate medical education [1], these may include beyond curriculum education and the concept of problem based learning (PBL) [2,3]. The latter was introduced by Barrow...

Evaluation in continuing medical education (CME) is a traditional part of planning but is often not approached with the same level of sophistication as other parts of the teaching/learning transaction. An understanding of the models and schema in the literature allows broader and more reasoned thinking about effective evaluation. This article briefly describes and compares several models and sc...

Further development of public health education is critical to improve population health globally. A debate on the relevance and direction of some 400 schools of public health and many other related institutions around the world is therefore timely. Some argue that most public health schools set up in low-income countries blindly follow their counterparts in high-income countries, reproducing cl...

çommunity based mental health services was brought to ïran during the decade of 1970s to decentralize services, decrease reliance on hospitalization and integrate the everyday life of chronic patients into the mainstream of social life. during the decade 1980s, integration of health provision and medical education, and development of a network of “primary health çare (phç)” were two important s...

the findings revealed that about 31 percent of women were below and 69% were above the food poverty line. comparison of averages of some variables including education status, employment (head of household), income, banking facilities such as credit and loans, property and assets, savings, economic skills, economic participation, government supports, husband's attitude, self-confidence, self-est...

there is an escalating demand for geriatric oral healthcare in all developed and developing countries including india. two-thirds of the world’s elderly live in developing countries. this is a huge population that must receive attention from policy-makers who will be challenged by the changing demands for social and health services including oral health services. resources are limited thus rath...

objective: the  implementation of  family  psychoeducation at  the  service delivery level is not without difficulty. few mental health professionals receive special training to work with families especially in iran.   the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training health professionals in terms of their adherence to protocol. method: eight professionals (general prac...