مرور Volume 5, Issue 3 بر اساس عنوان
در حال نمایش موارد 1 - 11 از 11
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Decentralisation of Health Services in Fiji: A Decision Space Analysis
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)Background Decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and ...
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Future Challenges and Opportunities in Online Prescription Drug Promotion Research; Comment on “Trouble Spots in Online Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Promotion: A Content Analysis of FDA Warning Letters”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)Despite increased availability of online promotional tools for prescription drug marketers, evidence on online prescription drug promotion is far from settled or conclusive. We highlight ways in which online prescription ...
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Global Health Warning: Definitions Wield Power; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)Gorik Ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. This ...
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Health Insecurity and Social Protection: Pathways, Gaps, and Their Implications on Health Outcomes and Poverty
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)Health insecurity has emerged as a major concern among health policy-makers particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It includes the inability to secure adequate healthcare today and the risk of being ...
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Improving Fraud and Abuse Detection in General Physician Claims: A Data Mining Study
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)Background We aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians' drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed ...
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Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)Responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-Saharan countries have scaled up training of nonphysician clinicians (NPCs), resulting in a gradual but decisive shift to NPCs as the cornerstone of healthcare ...
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The Pill Really Can Be Mightier Than the Sword: A Response to Recent Commentaries
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)
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Policies and Processes for Social Inclusion: Using EquiFrame and EquIPP for Policy Dialogue; Comment on “Are Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies Designed for All? Vulnerable Groups in Policy Documents of Four European Countries and Their Involvement in Policy Development”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)The application of EquiFrame in the analysis of sexual and reproductive health policies by Ivanova et al to a new thematic area, their selection of only some of the Core Concepts of human rights in health service provision ...
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Politics or Technocracy – What Next for Global Health?; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)Politics play a central part in determining health and development outcomes as Gorik Ooms highlights in his recent commentary. As health becomes more global and more politicized the need grows to better understand the ...
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Preferred Primary Healthcare Provider Choice Among Insured Persons in Ashanti Region, Ghana
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)Background In early 2012, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) members in Ashanti Region were allowed to choose their own primary healthcare providers. This paper investigates the factors that enrolees in the ...
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Whistleblowing: Don’t Encourage It, Prevent It; Comment on “Cultures of Silence And Cultures of Voice: The Role Of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-03-01)In a recent article, Mannion and Davies argue that there are a multitude of ways in which organizations (such as the National Health Service [NHS]) can deal with wrongdoing or ethical problems, including the formation of ...
