OBJECTIVE To assess maternal and neonatal health services in 49 developing countries. METHODS The services were rated on a scale of 0 to 100 by 10 - 25 experts in each country. The ratings covered emergency and routine services, including family planning, at health centres and district hospitals, access to these services for both rural and urban women, the likelihood that women would receive ...

Background India’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   Methods In this paper, I tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...

Assessment of progress towards sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in China requires the consideration of changes in separate health and family planning systems, as well as consideration of the transition from a command economy to a socialist market economy, led by a highly centralised political system, in the last three decades. Reform of the health system in the 1980s and 1990s encouraged ma...

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 dramatically changed the payment environment for institutional providers of non-acute health services by mandating a shift in Medicare reimbursement of outpatient, home health, and skilled nursing services from the traditional cost-based approaches to prospective payment. Although they were designed to slow health care spending, these Medicare payment reforms, pa...

Considering conflicting reports on the success efficacy of health services, this study was carried out to determine the sty le of utilization of health and treatment services in health centers of rural areas in 1996. The descriptive and cross-sectional strategy of this research study was performed in health centers of 11 provinces and their villages were classified into high, intermediate, and...

VHA Office of Rural Health • Fact Sheet • Volume 3 Issue 4 IN THIS ISSUE:  Rural mental health care and redesigned primary care  Did You Know?  Mental Health Pathway Mental Health and Mental Health Care in Rural America: the Hope of Redesigned Primary Care “In the United States, most people with mental health issues or disorders remain untreated.” Rural populations have a greater portion ...

Transkei is becoming headline news. Until recently this corner of South Africa was known in Britain only to a few tourists for its rolling hills dotted with huts; its "red blanket" tribespeople; and its click-language-recently heard over here in the African musical Ipi Tombi. On 26 October it became the Republic of Transkei-the first "independent African homeland" of South Africa. Like any deve...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to suggest a suitable context to develop efficient hospital systems while maintaining the quality of care at minimum expenditures. METHODS This research aimed to present a model of efficiency for selected public and private hospitals of East Azerbaijani Province of Iran by making use of Data Envelopment Analysis approach in order to recognize and suggest t...