BACKGROUND Providing appropriate palliative care for older people is a major task for health care systems worldwide, and up to now it has also been one of the most neglected. Focusing on the German health care system, we sought to explore the attitudes of health professionals regarding their understanding of palliative care for older patients and its implementation. METHODS In a qualitative s...

conclusions although the majority of women had pcc records and received advice from healthcare professionals to carry out pchbs, most of them did not adhere to the pchb guideline recommendations. it is therefore suggested that strategies should be adopted to establish pcc services in the healthcare system and encourage clients to adhere to the pchb guideline recommended by the ministry of healt...

BACKGROUND The views of general practitioners on their increasing role in caring for people with learning disability in the community are not known. AIM A study was carried out to assess the views of general practitioners with regard to providing routine care, organizing health promotion and specific health checks for people with learning disability and the role of specialists. METHOD A pos...

South African Journal of Occupational Therapy — Volume 44, Number 1, April 2014 INTRODUCTION Allopathy, for the purpose of this paper, refers to “the treatment of disease by conventional means”1:36 and is used in the broadest sense of the word and includes persons who are traditionally part of the multi-disciplinary team working with mental health care users, i.e. psychiatrists, medical practit...

in orders to promote the level of healthcare in societies, governments try to have different policies to transform the health system. the aim of this study was to measure the level of awareness of practitioners in iran, after initiating the new transformation of the health system in the country, starting from may 2014. this is a descriptive–cross-sectional study, which was inducted in october 2...

OBJECTIVE To identify and prioritize innovative strategies to address the health concerns of vulnerable migrant populations. DESIGN Modified Delphi consensus process. SETTING Canada. PARTICIPANTS Forty-one primary care practitioners, including family physicians and nurse practitioners, who provided care for migrant populations. METHODS We used a modified Delphi consensus process to iden...

This qualitative study explored individuals' preferences regarding the provision of nutrition care from Australian health professionals and the factors influencing their preferences. Thirty-eight individuals aged 53±8 years, living with a lifestyle-related chronic disease or risk factor for lifestyle-related chronic disease, participated in a semi-structured telephone interview. Participants we...

Managed health care, health maintenance organizations, and other cost in different parts of the country (Lancaster and Lancaster, 1993). Several economic realities will influence the future containment measures driven by the private sector in conjunction with scope and type of health care provided in the United States Congressionally funded initiatives are serving as the guiding forces in (U.S....

Inmost countries of the world some form of family medicine is being practiced by members of the medical profession. In over fifty countries distinct practitioners of this form of medicine are recognized and in some countries formal designation as specialists is accorded to them. In certain countries the physicians are called family practitioners and in others they are called general practitione...