Sustaining access to healthcare in a resourcepoor setting is a key challenge in achieving global health.1 While there exist huge differences in healthcare systems between developing and developed countries, shortages of doctors and other health professionals in rural and remote areas are universal issues.2 In rural areas, both patient-specific and extrinsic factors affect access to healthcare.3...

Information and Communication Technology plays dominant role in all business undertaken by the government. If all interactions with government can be done through single counter 24x7, without waiting in lines at the leisure of house than it will be highly convenient to all citizens. This will not facilitate the government to avoid corruption and reach people directly, it will additionally help ...

A validated Manual on Healthcare Waste Management (HCWM) for Level 1 Government Hospitals in Northern Philippines was developed based on the (1) profile of the (a) healthcare facility as to services, bed capacity, bed occupancy, and number of outpatients, and (b) medical staff as to HCWM training, awareness, vaccination, and staff contingent; (2) status of HCWM practices among respondents as to...

BACKGROUND Families living below the poverty line in countries which do not have universal healthcare coverage are drawn into indebtedness and bankruptcy. The state of Andhra Pradesh in India established the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme (RACHIS) in 2007 with the aim of breaking this cycle by improving the access of below the poverty line (BPL) families to secondary and ter...

Electronic data generation and analysis is on the increase. Healthcare is no exception in this matter. Considering the cost and sensitive nature of healthcare, electronic healthcare systems provide a great opportunity to present valuable data when and where it is needed. However there are barriers due to diverse origin and destination of data in healthcare services. This paper presents an overv...

BACKGROUND Effective maternal and child healthcare delivery requires a proper and adequate funding of the health sector. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of government-community healthcare co-financing on maternal and child healthcare services' delivery. METHODS A descriptive, cross-sectional study with an intervention component, conducted amongst 240 women from Igboukwu (intervention area...

With the coming of a super-aging society, Japan is faced with pressing social problems including medical expenditures increasing at an annual rate of about 1 trillion yen and an overstretched healthcare system—drastic structural reform in healthcare and medical care has become an urgent matter. Under the Japan Revitalization Strategy (revised in June 2014) to promote national growth, Japan aims...