Volume 4, Issue 3
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ارسال های اخیر
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The Chinese Healthcare Challenge; Comment on “Shanghai Rising: Avoidable Mortality as Measured by Avoidable Mortality since 2000”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)Investments in the extension of health insurance coverage, the strengthening of public health services, as well as primary care and better hospitals, highlights the emerging role of healthcare as part of China's new growth ...
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“Wood Already Touched by Fire is not Hard to Set Alight”; Comment on “Constraints to Applying Systems Thinking Concepts in Health Systems: A Regional Perspective from Surveying Stakeholders in Eastern Mediterranean Countries”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)A major constraint to the application of any form of knowledge and principles is the awareness, understanding and acceptance of the knowledge and principles. Systems Thinking (ST) is a way of understanding and thinking ...
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Lonely at the Top and Stuck in the Middle? The Ongoing Challenge of Using Cost-Effectiveness Information in Priority Setting; Comment on “Use of Cost-Effectiveness Data in Priority Setting Decisions: Experiences from the National Guidelines for Heart Diseases in Sweden”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)The topic of how cost-effectiveness information informs priority setting in healthcare remains important to both policy and practice. This commentary considers the study carried out by Eckard and colleagues in Sweden. In ...
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Implementation of a Health Policy Advisory Committee as a Knowledge Translation Platform: The Nigeria Experience
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)Background In recent times, there has been a growing demand internationally for health policies to be based on reliable research evidence. Consequently, there is a need to strengthen institutions and mechanisms that ...
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Addressing Health Workforce Distribution Concerns: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Develop Rural Retention Strategies in Cameroon
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)Background Nearly every nation in the world faces shortages of health workers in remote areas. Cameroon is no exception to this. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is currently considering several rural retention ...
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Health Improvements for a Healthy Shanghai Rising; Comment on “Shanghai Rising: Health Improvements as Measured by Avoidable Mortality since 2000”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)The commentator suggests that it is necessary to extend the classical connotation of global city which focuses much on the functions of controlling global capital and production. Global city should also include the ...
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The Use (or rather the non-Use) of Cost-Effectiveness Data in Priority Setting Decisions – Are We Underestimating the Barriers to Using Health Economics in Real World Priority Setting Decisions?; Comment on “Use of Cost-Effectiveness Data in Priority Setting Decisions: Experiences from the National Guidelines for Heart Diseases in Sweden”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)After having practicing and researching health economics for nearly 15 years now, it has become clear to me that the use of cost-effectiveness data in priority setting decisions is rather a rare than a common practice. The ...
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Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Organizations: A View from the Resource-Based View of the Firm
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)This short literature review argues that the Resource-Based View (RBV) school of strategic management has recently become of increased interest to scholars of healthcare organizations. RBV links well to the broader interest ...
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Course of Health Care Costs before and after Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment: Patient-Reported vs. Administrative Records
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)Background There is limited evidence on the course of health service costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, which might also be affected by source of cost data. Thus, this study examines: i) differences ...
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Long and Short Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Training Courses in Afghanistan: A Cross-sectional Cohort Comparison of Post-Course Knowledge and Performance
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2015-03-01)Background In 2003 the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) adopted the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) for delivering child health services in primary care facilities. Key problems were subsequently ...
