background: providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the iranian mental health office and the regional committee for the eastern mediterranean (affiliated with who). the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

introduction: as the elderly population increases, chronic diseases and disabilities also become more prevalent. home care programs as hospital services supplement, not only can prevent elderly from get worse in their disabilities but also make it easier for governments to manage elderly people's needs therefore, we aimed to determine the home visit services provided for elderly residing i...

background: postpartum care at home is a post delivery care method that can be provided by public health nurses, trained health workers, or midwifery nurses. a study conducted to compare effect of two midwife visits at home to usual postpartum care on the healthy behaviors of low-risk iranian mothers. methods: a randomized controlled trial conducted on 200 mothers at a reference center for scre...

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an increasingly endorsed primary care delivery model. Multiple definitions of PCMH exist. Most describe a PCMH as the infrastructure (providers, staff, health information technology, care processes, etc.) that supports proactive prevention, care coordination, and patient-centered health care. Providing PCMH services and processes can require significa...

a study was undertaken in southern peninsular state of india, the tamil nadu state, to assess the farmers’ “willingness to pay” (wtp) for receiving annual health care services to their dairy animals. the districts of the state were categorized as “livestock developed” (ld) and “livestock under developed” (lud) based on initial base line developed. contingent valuation (cv) approach was used to ...

PURPOSE Making good consumer decisions requires having good information. This study compared long-term-care recommendations among various types of health professionals. DESIGN AND METHODS We gave randomly varied scenarios to a convenience national sample of 211 professionals from varying disciplines and work locations. For each scenario, we asked the professional to recommend the appropriate ...

PURPOSE Recently, home health services have been a topic of increasing interest. Occupational therapy practice and utilization patterns in home care have not been the subject of recent research. METHOD I examined 65 publications addressing current occupational therapy practice in U.S. home health. Articles were analyzed to uncover factors influencing occupational therapy utilization and pract...

To contain costs and increase incentives for efficient provision of care, prospective payment methods are being proposed for Medicare home health services. Although a shift to per episode payment is much discussed, the methods rely on the home health visit as a fundamental building block in setting rates and ceilings. Some propose setting fixed per visit prices in the interim until episode paym...

BACKGROUND One area where the use of information and communication technology (ICT), or eHealth, could be developed is the home health care of premature infants. The aim of this randomized controlled study was to investigate whether the use of video conferencing or a web application improves parents' satisfaction in taking care of a premature infant at home and decreases the need of home visits...

Seniors and other hospital patients in the United States have traditionally had the option of being discharged to a skilled nursing facility (convalescent home) for post-acute services, or home with nursing and therapy services provided in the home setting. Traditionally, these home based services have been referred to as "home health." As more Americans have retired, home health services have ...