Volume 3, Issue 5
مرور بر اساس
ارسال های اخیر
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Public Participation: More than a Method?; Comment on “Harnessing the Potential to Quantify Public Preferences for Healthcare Priorities through Citizens’ Juries”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)While it is important to support the development of methods for public participation, we argue that this should not be at the expense of a broader consideration of the role of public participation. We suggest that a rights ...
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“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)
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Some Notes on Critical Appraisal of Prevalence Studies; Comment on: “The Development of a Critical Appraisal Tool for Use in Systematic Reviews Addressing Questions of Prevalence”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)Decisions in healthcare should be based on information obtained according to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). An increasing number of systematic reviews are published which summarize the results of prevalence ...
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Improving Maternal and Child Healthcare Programme Using Community-Participatory Interventions in Ebonyi State Nigeria
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)In Nigeria, the government is implementing the Free Maternal and Child Health Care Programme (FMCHCP). The policy is premised on the notion that financial barriers are one of the most important constraints to equitable ...
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Impact of Socio-Economic Status on the Hospital Readmission of Congestive Heart Failure Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)Background The aim of this study was to examine the impacts of multiple indicators of Socio-economic Status (SES) on Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) related readmission. Methods A prospective study ...
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Household Financial Contribution to the Health System in Shiraz, Iran in 2012
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)Background One common challenge to social systems is achieving equity in financial contributions and preventing financial loss. Because of the large and unpredictable nature of some costs, achieving this goal in the ...
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Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International ...
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Predictors of Language Service Availability in U.S. Hospitals
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)Background Hispanics comprise 17% of the total U.S. population, surpassing African-Americans as the largest minority group. Linguistically, almost 60 million people speak a language other than English. This language ...
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Evaluation of Board Performance in Iran’s Universities of Medical Sciences
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)Background The critical role that the board plays in governance of universities clarifies the necessity of evaluating its performance. This study was aimed to evaluate the performance of the boards of medical ...
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Iran’s Shift in Family Planning Policies: Concerns and Challenges
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)Iran's significant success in implementing Family Planning (FP) during the past 25 years, has made it a role model in the world. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Iran has dropped from 6.5 in 1960 to 1.6 in 2012, which is ...
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Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare Settings – A Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems?
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014-10-01)There is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving ‘leadership'. Leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership ...
