there is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. and while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. we outline some of the key issues set against the six key disciplinary preoccupations of the journal: epidemiology, health economics...

information technology can increase the quality of medical care and is a target for many of the pioneers in the development of clinical or medical information. electronic medical record (emr), one of such technologies, is a well-known and valuable system to access patient information in hospitals. electronic medical records which are used for the purpose of providing basic health care are avail...

introduction. universities of medical sciences & health services were established with the aim of training and development of efficient health manpower for improving the community health. the people of the community have common health problems and needs, so universities of medical sciences and health services can affect diagnosing the problems, providing the health needs and developing health c...

in this study, an effort has been made to determine the most important risk factors of tuberculosis (tb) in district mardan. a total of 645 cases were examined, and their personal and medical data were collected. for each case, the phenomenon of tb was studied in relation to different risk factors. statistical techniques of logistic regression and backward elimination procedure were used to ana...

explanation of the insightful family concept in care of the elderly    pouladi sh [1] , anoosheh m [2] *, kazemnejad a [3] , zareian a [4]     received: 31 may , 2013 accepted: 3 aug , 2013    abstract  background & aims : the elderly care in families with social problems and hardships indicate the insight of family members in elderly care. this study aims to explain the concept of family insig...