Volume 3, Issue 2
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Global health diplomacy: a ‘Deus ex Machina’ for international development and relations; Comment on “A Ghost in the Machine? Politics in Global Health Policy”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)Brugha and Bruen (2014) raise a number of compelling issues related to the interaction between politics and policy in the global health context. The first question that their views invite is whether this is, at heart, best ...
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Addressing Diabetes at the Crossroads of Global Pandemic and Regional Culture Comment on “The Curse of Wealth – Middle Eastern Countries Need to Address the Rapidly Rising Burden of Diabetes”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)As diabetes and obesity rates continue to climb at astronomical rates in the Middle East, future generationsare at an even greater risk for diabetes and the associated complications. Many factors are at play and it ...
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Factors Influencing Healthcare Service Quality
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)Background The main purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence healthcare quality in the Iranian context. Methods Exploratory in-depth individual and focus group interviews were ...
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Prevalence and Determinants of Under-Nutrition Among Children Under Six: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Fars Province, Iran
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)Background Childhood malnutrition as a major public health problem among children in developing countries can affect physical and intellectual growth and is also considered as a main cause of child morbidity and ...
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Technical Efficiency of Teaching Hospitals in Iran: The Use of Stochastic Frontier Analysis, 1999–2011
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)Background Hospitals are highly resource-dependent settings, which spend a large proportion of healthcare financial resources. The analysis of hospital efficiency can provide insight into how scarce resources are ...
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The Search for Underlying Principles of Health Impact Assessment: Progress and Prospects; Comment on “Investigating Underlying Principles to Guide Health Impact Assessment”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a relatively young field of endeavour, and hence, future progress will depend on the planning, implementation and rigorous evaluation of additional HIAs of projects, programmes and policies ...
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Global Health Politics: Neither Solidarity nor Policy; Comment on “Globalization and the Diffusion of Ideas: Why We Should Acknowledge the Roots of Mainstream Ideas in Global Health”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. ...
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Harnessing the Potential to Quantify Public Preferences for Healthcare Priorities through Citizens’ Juries
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)Despite progress towards greater public engagement, questions about the optimal approach to access public preferences remain unanswered. We review two increasingly popular methods for engaging the public in healthcare ...
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Factors Affecting the Technical Efficiency of Health Systems: A Case Study of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Countries (2004–10)
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)Background Improving efficiency of health sector is of particular importance in all countries. To reach this end, it is paramount to measure the efficiency. On the other hand, there are many factors that affect the ...
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Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01)In both developing and developed countries, health ministries closely examine use of so-called nudges to promote population health and welfare. Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, who developed the concept, define a nudge ...
