This paper analyzes the relationship between the financial health and organizational form of private health care providers in Brazil. It also examines the major determinants of customer satisfaction associated with the provider's organizational form. An adjusted Altman's z-score is used as an indicator of financial health. A proxy variable based on customer complaints filed at the Brazilian Nat...

It is widely believed that the turning point for U.S. health insurance came in 1949 when Congress failed to adopt President Harry Truman's proposal for a national system. The possibility that a system of state-level health plans might have emerged before Truman's plan has received little attention. Yet several attempts to enact such a plan were made in California by Governor Earl Warren in the ...

in a crisis, daily life of people is threatened by disaster. the management of the crisis is both a science and an art in which attempts are made to restore the critical situation to a normal one, not necessarily to the same conditions which existed before the crisis took place. the ability of a manager to overcome the crisis depends on his readiness before it occurs. in this review article, th...

in order to have a rational environmental health planning we need to know the status of environmental health and foresee the results of the projects in action. so a general sanitary survey was carried out in 105 villages in isfahan area in 1969-70. the purposes of this survey were to study the sanitary condition and bacteriblogica1 quality of water in villages with or with out community water s...

Background: Statistics of alcohol use Iran was investigated in the beginning of 2010 in Mental, Social Health and Addiction Department of Ministry of Health. The findings showed that the alcohol use, especially in young people, is notable. Hence a strategic plan or a policy document in alcohol use was needed to explain the main vision also provide countrywide strategies for all related domains ...