INTRODUCTION Health assistants are important functionaries of the primary health care system in India. Their role is supervision of field-based services among other things. A quality assurance mechanism for these health assistants is lacking. The present study was undertaken with the objectives of developing a tool to assess the quality of health assistants in primary health centres (PHCs) and ...

CONTEXT Vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) decreases risks of cancer and genital warts and the need for gynecologic procedures, yet nationwide vaccination rates are low. Previous surveys exploring this phenomenon have not included input from nurses and medical assistants, who play integral roles in HPV vaccine delivery. OBJECTIVE To understand perceptions of HPV vaccine delive...

INTRODUCTION Deafness is a major problem in developing countries. Rural communities tend to be affected more than urban ones, and chronic otitis media is common. The World Health Organization has proposed primary ear care as a method of providing otological services in developing countries. This study aimed to assess the diagnostic otoscopy skills of community ear assistants in rural Western Ne...

Many countries have a compulsory health insurance system in place. Compulsory health insurers charge income related fees as opposed to private health insurers who charge risk related fees. Compulsory health insurance is based on solidarity among policy holders and can give them more privacy than any private health insurer can. As an example, we consider the German health insurance system, and w...

Configuration assistants are tools for guiding the final user in simple configuration tasks, such as product assembling and customisation or study plans generation. For their wide availability, Web-based configuration assistants are valuable in fields such as electronic commerce and information services. We describe a general approach for building web-based configuration assistants: from a high...

In 2007, Kangan Institute commenced inclusion of Allied Health Assistant Certificate 4 Podiatry Units delivered by a podiatrist. Different models have been delivered including external placement with private podiatrists, service specific units on site and external work based programs. Since then, a number of TAFE based AHA courses have been commenced including those at Swinburne and Gippsland. ...

Intelligent user interfaces (IUI) represent a promising approach to improving user productivity and experience in software systems. One class of users that could benefit from such interfaces is knowledge workers, who routinely process large quantities of information from various sources to form new domain-specific knowledge. However, several challenges exist in properly supporting such users, i...