BACKGROUND Hospitals play a crucial role in providing communities with essential medical care during times of disasters. The emergency department is the most vital component of hospitals' inpatient business. In Iraq, at present, there are many casualties that cause a burden of work and the need for structural assessment, equipment updating and evaluation of process. OBJECTIVE To examine the c...

BACKGROUND Patient safety culture is an integral aspect of good standard of care. A good patient safety culture is believed to be a prerequisite for safe medical care. However, there is little evidence on whether general education can enhance patient safety culture. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the impact of a standardized patient safety course on health care worker patient safety culture....

Mutual Health Organisations (MHOs) are a type of community health insurance scheme that are being developed and promoted in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1998, an MHO was organised in a rural district of Guinea to improve access to quality health care. Households paid an annual insurance fee of about US$2 per individual. Contributions were voluntary. The benefit package included free access to all fir...

The SARS crisis revealed critical gaps in Ontario's health emergency response capacity, and identified, in the starkest terms possible, the need for improved emergency response planning. This article reviews the development of the Ontario Health Plan for an Influenza Pandemic (OHPIP), released in June 2005. Some key points arising from the provincial planning process include the necessity to: e...

Information on patient’s medication is often vital especially when patient’s condition is critical. However, the information does not yet move freely between different health care units and organizations. Before reaching the point of putting into practice any system that makes the interorganizational medication information transmission possible, some prerequisites and characteristics of the inf...

ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the work process of Primary Health Care professionals in coping with COVID-19. Method: a qualitative study that used health as conceptual basis and research methodological framework. The collection procedure was carried out 23 from July September 2021, basic units municipality northwestern Paraná, Brazil. For analysis, data were organized by means MAXQDA software, ...