background: social capital causes promoting community members’ participation level as set of norms among community systems. we aimed to determination between perceived social capital with relevant factors among health workers in medical and health network of rey city.   methods: this study was a cross sectional one which assessed determination between social capital and relevant factors among h...

introduction: attention to food safety and health at all stages from production to consumption is inevitable. inappropriate sanitary status of the food production, distribution and supply centers caused food-borne diseases. the aim of this study was to evaluate the environmental health indicators of halva and tahini production centers in the city of ardakan in 2013. materials & methods: this is...

BACKGROUND Hospital-specific and surgeon-specific public reporting of performance measures is expanding largely due to calls for transparency from the public and oversight agencies. Surgeons continue to voice concerns regarding public reporting. Surgeons' perceptions of hospital-level and individual-level public reporting have not been assessed. This study (1) evaluated surgeons' perceptions of...

National policies to improve health care quality have largely focused on clinical provider outcomes and, more recently, payment reform. Yet the association between hospital leadership and quality, although crucial to driving quality improvement, has not been explored in depth. We collected data from surveys of nationally representative groups of hospitals in the United States and England to exa...

Waste and materials management, land use planning, transportation and infrastructure including water and energy can have indirect or direct beneficial impacts on the environment and public health. The potential for impact, however, is rarely viewed in an integrated fashion. To facilitate such an integrated view in support of community-based policy decision making, we catalogued and evaluated as...

INTRODUCTION Access to high-quality health care is a crucial social determinant of health. We describe the implementation of an "expanded medical home" partnering a primary care practice (the Ypsilanti Health Center [YHC]) with local school-based health centers (the Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools [RAHS]), and to assess whether this model improves access to and quality of care for shared ...

Coastal resilience is the ability of a system to prepare, resist, recover, and adapt achieve functional performance under adverse events such as storms sea-level changes. Usually, previously developed metrics are applied quantify resistance portion coastal resilience, which supports preparation adaptation portions. Recent research produced GIS-based tool that provides quantitative metric inform...