INTRODUCTION Assessing the impact of a training programme is important for quality assurance and further development. It also can helps with accountability and marketing purposes. This study evaluated the impact of King's College London (KCL) Master of Science programme in Dental Public Health in terms of graduates' perceived learned skills and professional development. METHODS An online ques...

Background: Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) is regarded as a great public health concern all around the world causing diarrhoea which can be transmitted through food chain. Aims: This study aimed to determine the contamination level and exact distribution rate of DEC in food products consumed by human. Methods: Seven hundred and t...

The Universitas 21 (U21) organization funded a one-year project to examine global e-health. An e-health steering committee surveyed the opinions of e-health researchers at U21 member schools and conducted a literature review. Information about key themes was analysed and the findings were summarized. The steering committee recommended an eight-step strategy to establish a sustainable endeavour ...

Being familiar with the benefits of e-Health, Telekom Slovenia and the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Maribor along with other partners have initiated an eHealth project. In order to achieve high and effective user adoption of e-Health services, the user-centred design approach is used in the-Health project. Since broadly known conventional UCD methods and techniques are not complet...

This study presents a conceptual model to investigate the e-health readiness required by healthcare organization and the impact of such readiness in enhancing e-health transformation success. A scale to measure e-health readiness was developed and validated; then it was used to collect the large-scale survey data. The partial least squares (PLS) method was used to empirically test the conceptua...

background: to investigate the prevalence of antibiotic usage in children aged <5 years with acute respiratory tract illness (arti) in iran. materials and methods: data were collected from a national health survey conducted in 2010 (iran’s multiple indicator demographic and health survey). participants of this cross-sectional study were selected by multistage stratifi ed cluster-random sampling...