BACKGROUND The South Australian Research Network 'SARNet' aims to build research capacity in primary health care, as part of a national government-funded strategy to integrate research into clinical practice. Internationally, research networks have been a fundamental part of research culture change, and a variety of network models exist. The 'SARNet' model uses a whole system, multidisciplinary...

BACKGROUND Access to, and use of, dental health services in Brazil have improved since 2003. The increase of private health care plans and the implementation of the "Smiling Brazil" Program, the largest public oral health care program in the world, could have influenced this increase in access. However, we do not yet know if inequalities in the use of dental health services persist after the im...

BACKGROUND The UK National GP Patient Survey is one of the largest ever survey programmes of patients registered to receive primary health care, inviting five million respondents to report their experience of NHS primary healthcare. The third such annual survey (2008/9) involved the development of a new survey instrument. We describe the process of that development, and the findings of an exten...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to describe the perspectives of diabetes care professionals regarding the roles and responsibilities of people with diabetes (PWD), health care professionals (HCPs), and the larger society to improve the provision of person-centered diabetes care. METHODS The survey contained open-ended items about challenges of, successes of, and wishes for improvements in t...

The Health Equity Monitor (HEM) is one component theme of the Global Health Observatory, the main statistics repository of the World Health Organization (WHO). Launched in 2013, HEM is a collaboration between: the WHO Department of Information, Evidence and Research (Geneva, Switzerland); the WHO Gender, Equity and Human Rights Team (Geneva, Switzerland); and the International Center for Equity...

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has the twin goals of generating data and shaping policy decisions, yet examples that combine these goals are scarce in the literature. We describe how a community-based survey was created and used to help develop a county health plan. The Genesee Health Plan (GHP), a community-initiated non-profit organization, provides primary care, prescription d...

background and purpose: utilization of health care services and food influence the health status. the food and health care expenditure ratios determine the importance level of them in household's consumption expenditures. we aimed to investigate the iranian rural and urban food and health expenditure ratios inequality during 1998 to 2012. materials and methods: this is a descriptive longit...

BACKGROUND This methodological paper describes the integration of the 'European Health Interview Survey wave 2' (EHIS 2) into the 'German Health Update' 2014/2015 (GEDA 2014/2015-EHIS). METHODS GEDA 2014/2015-EHIS is a cross-sectional health survey. A two-stage stratified cluster sampling approach was used to recruit persons aged 15 years and older with permanent residence in Germany. Two dif...

CAHPS® is a widely used survey instrument measuring consumer experiences with health care. The National CAHPS® Benchmarking Database (NCBD) project, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, has compiled CAHPS® survey results from a variety of sponsors into a single national database, the NCBD, that enables participants to compare their results to relevant benchmarks such as nat...

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