... strategies include increasing salaries for health professionals working in primary health facilities, creating more promotion opportunities for primary health professionals and offering more training ... mobilization of primary health care workers in China, with the exception of a few papers looking at mobilization in a single hospital [7,8] The purpose of this p...
... macroeconomic and some health expenditure data for LDCs and miscellaneous sources and studies drawn from countries as diverse as the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Finland, Japan, and China; and relevant ... of International and Social Affairs, UN, New York, NY, USA van der Gaag, J., and Preker, A., 1998, Health care for aging populations: Issues and options, in Choices...
... common cause of attrition among district health care workers [14,15] A recent South African survey measured HIV prevalence among health care workers at 12% [16] In Malawi, the death rate among health ... Health Management Team) and Graham Samungole (Lusaka Urban District Health Management Team) for their assistance in study implementation and recruitment...
... knowledge, attitudes and practices iv Keywords: Antenatal care, delivery care, utilization, adequacy, hospital delivery, caesarean section, health and demographic surveillance site, rural and urban, Vietnam ... use of antenatal and delivery care in relation to demographic and socio-economic status and other factors in two health and demographi...
... DALY of a range of health interventions representing the situation in the health care sector at the time of study Before this study, there was only very limited and scattered information on the ... this paper is therefore to provide input into an analysis of identifying ways of improving the allocative efficiency of resource utilisation in the health...
... primary care provider for the diagnosis and non-surgical management of SRDs; a primary care physician for the spine Primary Care for the Spine Primary care is defined by the American Academy ... if they are to successfully train primary spine care practitioners Incentivizing value: Traditionally, in the area of SRDs and as in other areas of h...
... AWho would be able to make health decisions if your were unable? If Ayes@ to health decisions help, are they an official DPOAHC?, 10 HEALTH CARE MAINTENANCE IN THE ELDERLY GOALS: To improve quality ... 48.Steering Committee of the Physicians Health Study Research Group Final report on the aspirin component of the ongoing physicians health study N Eng J Med 1989;321:1...
... the behavioral health managed care organization for Allegheny County Medical Assistance recipients and can also assist uninsured Allegheny County residents with information about available services ... this guide Underinsured or Uninsured Underinsured or Uninsured? A Guide to Healthcare Resources in Allegheny County Following is a list of clinics and h...
... have special training in the areas of handling the elderly (geriatrics) instead of the current training where there is only limited coverage of this subject in the general training (Kenyatta National ... done? 2.2 Findings The following are a summary of the findings of the research 2.2.1 Role and importance of the Elderly in the Community Despite the changing socio-e...
... THERAPEUTIC EDUCATION OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC DISEASES The status of therapeutic patient education in the treatment of chronic diseases In health care practice outside the hospital, about 80% of the diseases ... institutions, health care providers and consumers, the media, health insurance companies, the health industries, and the WHO Reg...
... estimator is applied to the data and the resulting parameter estimates are saved as a data set Using the collection of estimated parameter sets from these replications, one can calculate the standard ... that the health facility parameters are allowed to vary by type of care; the approach is more flexible than that used by most other health care demand studies Given...
... are foreign-born” and “only california, texas, florida, and new york post higher numbers of uninsured residents who are immigrants [4].” although many legal farmworkers are eligible for health care ... money spent on health care for undocumented immigrants is concentrated in the following areas: emergency medical services, well-baby maternity care, delivery, and after-birth ca...
... public health initiatives There is an apparent disconnect between care providers and those engaged in public health Very few front-line health care professionals in the United Kingdom perceive themselves ... Conclusion So what can health care professionals based in the United Kingdom and other resource-rich environments learn from Malawi? Behind th...
... suggested an association between availability of health care information (or lack of it) and knowledge or quality of health care: • "We have shown that appropriate investigations are strongly associated ... why? investigate further the link between lack of information and feelings of professional isolation and general dissatisfaction among rural health workers How imp...
... constituting nearly three quarters of all infant deaths [19] In 2003, the Ministry of Health in Viet Nam adopted a groundbreaking initiative to improve neonatal health care by launching practice ... Five topics on neonatal care Figure Knowledge survey results Knowledge survey results Results of the knowledge survey among primary health care staff on five to...