Background: The desire for universal health coverage in developing countries has brought attention to community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in developing countries. The government of Uganda is currently debating policy for the national health insurance programme, targeting the integration of existing CBHI schemes into a larger national risk pool. However, while enrolment has been larg...

Health information systems represent a key component of national health systems. However, the capabilities for leveraging information for improved health are limited and unevenly distributed in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Improving such capabilities has been identified as a key priority for the success of reforms of national health systems through primary healthcare and ...

Background: Students often use Social Network Sites and are willing to share information and communicate with teachers, colleagues and patients. Despite the increase in the application of the Social Network Sites as a tool for obtaining health knowledge, few studies have been conducted to evaluate the production and share of health information by rehabilitation students, especially in Iran. The...

This article examines the role of the business associate of healthcare providers (BAHP) in the National Health Information Network. Current Health Insurance Portability and Accountability legislation has little to say about BAHPs and their potential impact on medical information privacy. For the good of the business enterprise, managers who are BAHPs or who supervise BAHPs need to be aware of t...

background: thesis is an important part of specialisation and doctorate education and requires intense work. the aim of this study was to investigate the publication rates of turkish public health doctorate theses (phdt) and public health specialization (phst) theses in international and turkish national peer-review journals and to analyze the distribution of research areas. methods: list of al...

achieving the millennium development goals has proven to be a real challenge. providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. social network analysis can provi...