social networks play a significant role in today world. these sites affect different aspects of individual and social life of people and the national and even international levels. accordingly, they are spreading, and will play more important role in the future life. this paper aims to examine the positive and negative effects of social networks’ filtering, that creates curiosity and has invers...

background: theoretically, a vital factor in development has been the resilience and strength of socio-economic system to confront instabilities and crises. the precaution, however, is that an error might be committed, where, instead of finding the root causes of diseases we are mobilizing the forces to confront the signs of illness, leaving the diseases to grow and damage the lesser developed ...

BACKGROUND Inequalities in oral health and care are long recognized in Canada, with public health environments increasingly focusing on issues of equity and access to care. How does Canada publicly insure for diseases that are largely preventable, minimally experienced by the majority, but that still cause tremendous suffering among the socially marginalized? We consider this dynamic by asking ...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world, affecting not only industrialized but, above all, low- and middle-income countries, where it has overtaken infectious diseases as the first cause of death and its impact threatens social and economic development. The increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease in recent years together with projected mortality for the coming d...

background: responsiveness is one of the three main goals of the health system introduced by world health organization. this study aimed at examining health system responsiveness after health sector evolution plan in kermanshah, western iran. methods: a sample of 335 hospitalized patients was selected using proportionate allocation to population size method in the city of kermanshah (iran) in 2...

BACKGROUND In the literature there are only few empirical studies that analyse the decision makers' reasoning to contract out health care and social services to private sector. However, the decisions on the delivery patterns of health care and social services are considered to be of great importance as they have a potential to influence citizens' access to services and even affect their health....

12 SNAPSHOTS Many millions of adults in Europe are receiving social care, which can be defined as support for individuals with the activities of their daily lives, which can range across personal needs, domestic tasks, social activities and friendship. Most of this support is unpaid care from family and friends, but there are also large numbers of community organisations, charities, for-profit ...

Over the last decade in England, there have been numerous attempts to develop new forms of integrated care working between health and social care agencies that have sought to improve the care experiences for older people and those with complex and chronic care needs. However, despite a significant amount of innovation, the care system remains fragmented. This presentation examines how integrate...

BACKGROUND The performance management concept is relatively new to the Ugandan health sector. Uganda has been implementing health sector reforms for nearly two decades. The reforms included the introduction of the results-oriented management in the public sector and the decentralisation of the management of health care workers from central to local governments. This study examined the implement...

Introduction: The role of private funding in long-term care programmes (LTC) is increasing worldwide. As stated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), funding is a major tool for policy and planning. Although this is well accepted in the public sector, the policy aspects of private funding have been largely overlooked in the European countries, particularly in those with a consolidated welfare...