OBJECTIVES Describe the availability of psychotropic medications for the treatment of mental disorders in the health care facilities of the Ministry of Health of Peru. MATERIALS AND METHODS Monthly inventory reports of the availability and consumption of medications in facilities of the Ministry of Health during 2011 were analyzed. Using a cross sectional design, the availability of seven cla...

INTRODUCTION Service quality and customer satisfaction are very important components of competitive advantage in the health care sector. The SERVQUAL method is widely used for assessing the quality expected by patients and the quality of actually provided services. OBJECTIVES The main purpose of this study was to determine if patients from state and private health care facilities differed in ...

OBJECTIVE To assess trends in the use of private and public health care services among Jamaicans over a 15-year period (1991-2007). DESIGN AND METHODS Statistics on the use of health care services were taken from the Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC) for the 15-year period 1993 to 2007. Use of hospital services were represented in income quintiles and compared for private and public ...

BACKGROUND At Independence the Government of Indonesia inherited a weak and unevenly distributed health system to which much of the population had only limited access. In response, the government decided to increase the number of facilities and to locate them closer to the people. To staff these health facilities the government introduced obligatory government service for all new graduates in m...

ORGANIZATION OF CARE: Health care is provided to patients with mental disorders by the state health care facilities as well as by social help agencies. Mental health care services are provided mostly by mental health facilities and partly by primary care units. Outpatient clinics, separate for psychiatric patients and substance abusers, are the most numerous mental health care units, amounting ...

background : schools have an important role in developing the countries. physical, health and safety factors are essential for normal growth of students' body, spirit and learning. by using environmental health protocols, it is easier to achieve these aims. methods : the aim of this research is to study the environmental health conditions in the primary schools of ghorve, west of iran. this obs...

Myanmar transitioned to a civilian government in March, 2011. Although the democratic process has accelerated since then, many problems in the field of healthcare still exist. Since there is a limited overview on the healthcare in Myanmar, this article briefly describes the current states surrounding health services in Myanmar. According to the Census 2014, the population in the Republic of the...

OBJECTIVES Many adolescents admitted to detention facilities have serious mental and physical health problems. Little is known about policies for the delivery of mental and physical health care in these settings. Our objective was to describe current health care policies in U.S. detention facilities. METHOD Telephone interviews were requested from 83 juvenile detention facility administrators...

Replacement of traditional fee-for-service health care with capitation, the rising costs of new medical technologies, the duplication of health services among competitors, and the need to attract physician networks and managed care contracts, are some of the factors that necessitate collaborative efforts among health care facilities. Although the Ethical and Religious Directives for Health Care...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with service quality provided by agencies implementing a basic package of health services in Afghanistan. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of outpatient health facilities, health workers, patients and caretakers. SETTING Primary health care facilities in every province of Afghanistan. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Composite scale measuring the quality of clin...