background: osteoporosis is a common metabolic bone disease that causes bone fracture. this study was performed to determine the effect of health belief model in osteoporosis prevention in volunteers of khorramabad in 2011. methods: this quasi-experimental before and after study was conducted among the hundred volunteers, which were stratified randomly into two fifty-member groups of case and c...

Funding for graduate medical education (GME) and undergraduate medical education (UME) in the United States is being debated and challenged at the national and state levels as policy makers and educators question whether the multibillion dollar investment in medical education is succeeding in meeting the nation's health care needs. To address these concerns, the authors propose a novel all-paye...

The health reform legislation passed in March of this year, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), was the focus of intense debate largely because of provisions that changed the way we provide health insurance coverage and regulate the insurance industry. Some provisions received very little attention both because they were less controversial and also because they were s...

BACKGROUND Educating and training diabetic patients is necessary for controlling and improving their health. METHODS It was Quasi-experimental study design study. The study aimed to determine the effects of health education on the achievements of diabetic patients regarding control and improvement of their health status; at Diabetic Health Centers in Khartoum State, Sudan; 2007-2010. The targ...

OBJECTIVES Comprehensive health promotion education is not feasible through pediatric office visits alone. Opportunities may exist for enhanced health promotion in child care settings. The objectives of this study were to understand the attitudes toward, barriers to, and strategies for incorporating health promotion activities in child care settings as well as topics that are deemed most useful...

It focuses on health centers, their history and contributions, and the major policy issues that affect health centers and the communities and patients they serve. The RCHN Community Health Foundation, founded in October 2005, is a not-for-profit operating foundation whose purpose is to support community health centers through strategic investment, advocacy, education, and cutting-edge health po...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to assess the effect of different levels of health education on diabetes outcome among patients visiting the Primary Health Care (PHC) Centers in Al-Qassim Region. METHODS This study was conducted between October 2012 and March2013. Baseline HbA1C results recorded for all those included in the study, After 6 months of health education a well-constructed ques...

OBJECTIVE To compare the primary care quality among different health care structures in Tibet, China. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire survey including Primary Care Assessment Tool-Tibetan version was used to obtain data from a total of 1386 patients aged over 18 years in the sampling sites in two prefectures in Tibet. Multivariate analysis was performed to assess the association bet...