BACKGROUND In 2006 the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published guidance on the management of childhood obesity, for use by primary care practitioners. Little is known, however, about practitioners' views and experiences of managing childhood obesity in primary care. AIM To explore practitioners' views of primary care as a setting in ...

The inclusion of pharmacies in health centres has created opportunities for general practitioners to become better acquainted with the potential contribution of pharmacists to health care. A qualitative study has been made to explore the extent to which this potential has been realized. Ten health centres with an integral pharmacy were selected, one from each of the regional health authorities ...

As early as 1989, the legislation that created the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now known as the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality) called for the development, periodic review, and update of clinically relevant guidelines. These guidelines could assist physicians, educators, and health care practitioners in determining how diseases, disorders, and other health condition...

introduction: health care industry consists of an unexpected and confusing environment in which quality events play the important role. in such conditions, the necessary changes should be made. excellence models are general oriented frameworks that are able to achieve the above intention. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. data gathered by a standard checkli...

INTRODUCTION Indigenous Australians experience a disproportionately high burden of alcohol-related harm. Alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) offers the potential to reduce this harm if barriers to its delivery in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) can be optimally targeted. AIMS . Examine health-care practitioners' perceptions of, and practices in, alcohol SBI...

97 CSIRO Publishing Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2017 This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License CorrespondenCe to: Felicity Goodyear-smith Head of Department, General Practice and Primary Health Care, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealan...

BACKGROUND Health facility characteristics associated with effective prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) coverage in sub-Saharan are poorly understood. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We conducted surveys in health facilities with active PMTCT services in Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Zambia. Data was compiled via direct observation and exit interviews. We co...

Mental disorders are the leading cause of non-communicable disability worldwide. Insufficient numbers of psychiatrically trained providers and geographic inequities impair access. To close this treatment gap, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the integration of mental health services with primary care. A new innovative online program is presented that increases access to mental...

Background: This study focussed on the perception of Medical Health Care Professionals (MHCPs) and Local Consumers (LHCCs) traditional health-care systems (THCS) collaboration both modern system in western Ladakh, India. Methods: The area was based distribution three different socio-cultural groups valleys (Lower Indus, Suru Wakha Chu) Ladakh. A detailed field investigation undertaken for perce...

BACKGROUND The indigenous health system was perceived to be a threat to the allopathic health system. It was associated with 'witchcraft', and actively discouraged, and repressed through prohibition laws. The introduction of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 of 2007 brought hope that those centuries of disrespect for traditional health systems would change. The study examined the p...