Access to basic health care services is one of the major issues in developing nations. The location of health care facilities is an important aspect in health care delivery. It is therefore necessary for health care services to be located optimally to serve the demands well. This study develops an integrated methodology in the field of healthcare location which minimizes the weighted average Eu...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Equality in distribution of health care facilities is the main cause for access and enjoyment to the health. The aim of this study was to examine the regional disparities in health care facilities across the Markazi province. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study. Study sample included the cities of Markazi province, ranked based on 15 health indices. Data was coll...

INTRODUCTION This article examines women's opinions about their reasons for the non-utilization of appropriate public health care facilities, according to categories of their healthcare seeking in India. METHODS This cross-sectional article uses nationally representative samples from the Indian National Family Health Surveys NFHS-3 (2005-2006), which were generated from randomly selected hous...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in the choice of health care providing facility in Nigeria. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the factors influencing choice and satisfaction with health service providers among local government staff. METHODS A cross sectional survey of all 312 workers in a Local Government Secretariat in South West Nigeria was done. Chi Square and logistic regre...

The function of a medical director is presented along with features of efficiency and deficiencies from the perspective of healthcare system improvement. A MEDLINE/Pubmed research was performed using the terms "medical director" and "director", and 50 relevant articles were selected. Institutional healthcare quality is closely related to the medical director efficiency and deficiency, and a cri...

At the heart of this magnificent transformation have been structural and organizational changes of a magnitude unprecedented in the long history of veterans’ health care. When we created 22 (now 21) Veterans Integrated Service Networks in 1995, we changed the way we allocated resources from individual facilities to geographic networks. This, in turn, enabled us to shift the emphasis in our care...