the importance of health indicators in the recent years has created challenges in resource allocation. balanced and fair distribution of health resources is one of the main principles in achieving equity. the goal of this cross-sectional descriptive study, conducted in 2010, was to classify health structural indicators in the fars province using the scalogram technique. health structural indica...

In this paper the differences in average waiting times are utilized to identify the determinants of demand for health services. The equilibrium waiting time framework is used, but the full equilibrium assumption is relaxed by selecting areas with low waiting times and by estimating a (semi-)parametric selection model. Determinants of supply are used as instruments for the endogeneity of waiting...

Introduction: Information is a vital requirement like other human vital needs. One of the information every patient needs is about the health and ways of preventing diseases and information for their treatment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that there is no significant correlation among demographics variables and the health information-seeking behavior of patients ...

BACKGROUND Although attainment of the health-related Millennium Development Goals relies on countries having adequate numbers of human resources for health (HRH) and their appropriate distribution, global understanding of the systems used to generate information for monitoring HRH stock and flows, known as human resources information systems (HRIS), is minimal. While HRIS are increasingly recog...

objectives: the aim of this research was to study information seeking behavior and the pattern of reading behavior of faculty members of university of social welfare & rehabilitation sciences in using printed and electronic resources. methods: the descriptive research method was a survey method. the research was implemented by using an organized questionnaire which was distributed among the sta...

OBJECTIVES The Medical Library Association (MLA)/National Library of Medicine (NLM) Joint Electronic Personal Health Record Task Force examined the current state of personal health records (PHRs). METHODS A working definition of PHRs was formulated, and a database was built with fields for specified PHR characteristics. PHRs were identified and listed. Each task force member was assigned a po...