introduction: the success of a health system depends on the accessibility and the quality of health services it provides. one major indicator of service quality is peoples satisfaction from the service. in this article, healthcare availability and satisfaction of people in 17th zone of tehran is investigated. methods: population research center has performed a survey in 17th zone of tehran to i...

While the aged as a group have better access to health care since the inception of Medicare, there are subsets of the population that are still vulnerable to large out-of-pocket expenses. The focus of this analysis is on those segments of the Medicare population which are particularly vulnerable to access problems due to their personal characteristics. In particular, using data from the Nationa...

It is anticipated that the demand for contraceptives in Iran will increase in the near future as the number of women of reproductive age increases and with women wanting smaller families. The aim of this paper was to study the demand for long-acting and permanent contraceptive methods (LAPCMs), and its determinants, among Kurdish women in Mahabad city, Iran. Data were taken from the Mahabad Fer...

The success of VRML —the Virtual Reality Modeling Language— which has established as the standard for 3D data on the Internet, shows that virtual reality is no longer limited to research labs but will become a part of every-body's life. Although VRML has just made its first steps from a static scene description language to an interactive VR specification, the realization of distributed virtual ...

BACKGROUND The World Mental Health surveys have been known to apply high standards of quality control, but few studies have been published to document this. Furthermore, the effectiveness of quality control has rarely been reported in the Middle East. CASE PRESENTATION The focus of this paper was to highlight the implementation of quality control procedures in the Saudi National Mental Health...

This paper describes the sample design used in the Brazilian application of the World Health Survey. The sample was selected in three stages. First, the census tracts were allocated in six strata defined by their urban/rural situation and population groups of the municipalities (counties). The tracts were selected using probabilities proportional to the respective number of households. In the s...

Desktop virtual reality (VR) offers a powerful environment for visualizing structure in large information sets. In well-designed virtual worlds, users can employ skills from wayfinding in the real world. This paper reports the development and testing of a series of prototype VR worlds, designed to support navigation during information visualization and retrieval. Results indicated that users’ s...

DISCLAIMER: Note that these results are descriptive results for the samples collected in the household surveys of the WHO Multi-country Survey Study of Health and Health Systems Responsiveness (Brief survey, N=803). They are not representative for the country as sampling weights were not used. The WHO World Health Survey, which contained a second iteration of the responsiveness questions, did c...