background: the need to provide high quality prenatal care services, which take account of women's views and specifi­cally address their need for information, support and communication, has been advocated and group prenatal care, had been sug­gested as one of the ways to achieve this objective. the purpose of this study was to examine the impact of group versus in­dividual prenatal care on sati...

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abstract background: quality of care is of great importance in health services as these services have the important mission to preserve health, and to give care to the society. the present study aimed to investigate the quality of midwifery services from the viewpoint of the clients, under coverage of health care centers in isfahan, through servqual model. materials and methods: this descriptiv...

background: social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. in iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. this study aimed to explore the roles and functions of primary health care (phc) system in providing social care services in iran.   methods: this was a qualitative study, for which data w...

    Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury (1). During last decade, home health care is taken into consideration seriously. The concept of home health care began in the 1850's when traveling health care professionals provided in-home visits to patients in need of health care and unable to seek such care on their own (2). ...

background & aim: maternal satisfaction of health services is an inherent element of healthcare policies, and quality of midwifery care essentially influences this parameter. this study aimed to evaluate maternal satisfaction of postpartum care and its association with midwifery care at the urban health centers of mashhad, iran in 2012. methods:this descriptive, cross sectional study was conduc...

continuous care team has a significant role in the treatment of chronic psychiatric patients and hence mental health services. this article retrospectively studied 55 patients of continuous care system at the shahid esmaily psychiatric center. results showed that compared to three years before intervention, during three years post intervention relapse rates, days of hospitalization (90%) and co...