background: primary health care is the major infrastructure of health care systems. it is clear that making and improving primary health care information systems would not be possible without awareness of their condition. therefore, this comparative study was conducted in order to determine the situation of primary health care information systems in health centers of tehran, iran. methods: this...

background: job satisfaction remains as an important concern for both employer and employee. the leaving of work­place and migration to city centers is one of the main results of job dissatisfaction among the primary health care (phc) provid­ers in rural setting of iran, behvarzes. determining the predictor's factors of the phc providers' job dissatisfac­tion and provid­ing appropriate strategi...

introduction: direct cash payments are the principal sources of health care finance in most countries. health services may impose a regressive cost burden on households, especially in developing countries. the purpose of this study was to calculate households encountered with catastrophic healthcare expenditures in qazvin, iran. methods: the statistical society included 100 household equaled to...

background: non-communicable diseases (ncds) and psychological hazards are increasingly observed in industries, necessitating the need to strengthen industrial health systems to control the same. district level data on level of functioning of industrial health systems and services with special focus on systems available for mental health care is lacking in india. this information is vital to pl...

the collection of data within the primary health care facilities in iran is essentially paper-based. it is focused on family’s health, monitoring of non-infectious and infectious diseases. clearly due to the paper-based nature of the tasks, timely decision making at most can be difficult if not impossible. as part of an on-going electronic health record implementation project at tehran universi...

background and aims: in order to plan for preventing and decreasing the rate of nursing errors, understanding of nurse’s perception of nursing errors could be very helpful. this study was thus designed to examine the critical care nurses perception of nursing errors from view point of critical care nurses. methods: this study was conducted in 9 hospitals in qazvin province located in north of i...

gingivitis is an inflammatory destructive disease mainly caused by microbial plaques. gram-positive and gram-negative bacilli or cocci have been isolated from dental plaque and gingivitis. this study was going to isolate and characterize the pathogenic bacteria from gingival of 100 patients with oral gingivitis. enriched and specific media used for isolation of bacteria. identification of isola...