BACKGROUND Reducing school absenteeism benefits the health and educational opportunities of young people. The Dutch intervention Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students (abbreviated as MASS) was developed to address school absenteeism due to sickness reporting, also called medical absenteeism. This study is part of a research project on the effectiveness of MASS and explores factors that infl...

To commission dental services for vulnerable (special care) patient groups effectively, consistently and fairly an evidence base is needed of the costs involved. The simplified Case Mixed Tool (sCMT) can assess treatment mode complexity for these patient groups. OBJECTIVE To determine if the sCMT can be used to identify costs of service provision. CLINICAL SETTING Patients (n=495) attending...

Increase in facilities Although our rate of mental illness has not gone up, our network of special hospitals and outpatient clinics has grown considerably. For example, the number of facilities increased from 8,700 in 1955 and 9,865 in 1957 to 11,735 in 1960. The total number of beds at the disposal of the mental health service in 1963 was 195,934, including beds of clinics attached to psychiat...

BACKGROUND Special education for children with chronic health conditions or disabilities requires the integration of health care work with education. This phenomenon occurs in an understudied and challenging context for integrated care despite policies and protocols that outline work processes in this context. We are interested in an approach to inquiry that will allow us to address gaps in cur...

In 2010, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice entered into an agreement with a nonprofit known as Social Finance to prevent reoffending by juvenile offenders released from prison in Peterborough, England. What made this contract unique is that the government payments to Social Finance were not based on delivery of services but instead on the level of government cost aversion from reduced re...

background: in the process of cancer treatment, mothers of children with cancer experience burden of care as a result of these conditions. early detection of burden of care has an important role in promoting health care. the aim of this study was to evaluate burden of care in mothers of children with a malignancy. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was done on 70 mothers of child...