background essential primary health care is delivered through the public health center phc network by public health workers (behvarzs). health workers are exposed to different types of stresses while working. objectives the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of burnout and associated factors among rural health workers in the health centers of birjand university of medical sciences...

abstract background and objectives: study of clinical competence in nursing helps determine the quality of health care delivered to patients. given the priority of observance of principles over caretaking and necessity of spirituality existence at the core of health care provision, this study was conducted to investigate clinical competence and its relationship with professional ethics and spir...

the international journal of health policy and management (ijhpm) is a new journal that aims to stimulate not only inter-disciplinary research relating to health, but even an entire new generation of such journals. the challenges of improving human health worldwide clearly suggest ‘why’ such a journal is needed, but ‘how’ bridges and junctions across fields of study towards this end might be fo...

objective: in the last 30 years, ever since the phc network in iran has been established, the job duties of behvarzes (mental health workers in rural areas) have been constantly increasing. the aim of this study was to determine the burnout level, mental health status and the severity of occupational stress among behvarzes. methods: all behvarzes (227) working in areas covered by iran universit...

conclusions the results of this study indicates that the single item burnout measure has potential as a brief, sensitive screening measure of burnout due to its brevity, ease of administration and sound psychometric properties and needs to be validated further in larger studies and with other professional groups. results sib scores were highly and positively correlated with mbi-ee scores (r = 0...

conclusions in both models, mothers’ employment had a negative effect on children’s health at birth; i.e. mothers’ employment increased the possibility of low birth weight due to malnutrition in children. however, mother’s education had a positive effect on children’s health at birth; i.e. an increase mothers’ education will decrease the possibility of children’s low birth weight. “family size”...

background: changes in expectations and requirements of the end users of medical education “community members” and evolution in health services necessitate some changes in the medical education curriculum. to achieve this reform in curricula, obtaining insight into the health care needs of community members and their comments about their physicians is highly required in community-oriented educa...

abstract background and objectives: study of clinical competence in nursing helps determine the quality of health care delivered to patients. given the priority of observance of principles over caretaking and necessity of spirituality existence at the core of health care provision, this study was conducted to investigate clinical competence and its relationship with professional ethics and spir...

background: the key challenge is how to encourage and retain health professionals in their work location. there is a list of policy options for the purpose but applying an appropriate and effective set of strategies requires a country level research. our study aimed to identify retention strategies for neurosurgeons and examine both the importance and feasibility of the identified strategies us...