examples of health services liberalized in gats as of may 2003

... activity Oct-Nov 2004 Training of 24 DTs Evaluation activity 6-day training Jan-June 2005 Training with Manual 1: Eight training sessions of 208 health workers (6-day training) Training evaluation - ... Evaluation of the training Coverage A total of 429 health workers from 177 health units were trained by the district trainers in 16 training session Of these, 208 were trained in Round using Manual ... observation of five training sessions - 208 pre- & 203 post-training questionnaires - Informal interviews Baseline study†: Feb-March 2005 Interviews with 20 HWs prior to receiving the training in 2006...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Caw-Binns University of West Indies Increasing Use and Improving Quality of Maternal and Child Health Services in Tunisia Moncef Sidhom Ministry of Health Improving Quality of Care in Georgia Keti ... as in the case of Brazil where Ministry of Health officials assess private and public health facilities Alternatively, self-assessment guides can be used to perform internal assessments of services ... of pre-service and in- service training of health care workers ♦ UNFPA could support training of staff, adaptation of protocols of care to local context, strengthening of infrastructure and communication,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... investigation of the 2004 database found an alarming number of cases of CHPs containing AA herbs (Tianxianteng or Madouling) prescribed after the ban was announced on November 2003 We found a total of 68 ... analyzed The database contains all transactions of health care services for the cohort, including both Western medicine and Chinese medicine, with the dates and some details of all outpatient visits, ... personal data of the patients The database was made available by the National Health Research Institutes in 2002 and was widely used by researchers in various fields [44] The main datasets used...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... disability as well as very high medical costs As shown in Table 2, Texas women are in high need of these services, based on their health status and receipt of health services, when compared to women in ... WHP, the remaining non-PPFA clinics would have to absorb a massive increase in WHP patients in order to maintain the overall 2011 caseload level Non-PPFA clinics in Bexar and Dallas Counties would ... Operational restructuring, such as by closing some sites and reducing staff, in light of the loss of operating funds Reexamination of their services, perhaps reducing the use of long-acting reversible...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... than that of adolescents in at least one of the three younger subgroups Of these cases, eight were in Asia (India and Indonesia), five in Latin America (Guatemala and Peru) and three in Africa ... proportions of mothers in Latin America were still in school at the time of the surveys (12% in Bolivia and Brazil) In Africa and Asia, most women lived in rural areas (71–91%) In Latin America, ... infant health have been limited by the lack of random assignment or baseline measures in their study designs.68 In addition to making health services more responsive to adolescents’ unique needs, interventions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... importance in the entire chain of health care delivery [18] C RHU Workers’ Assessment of the System of Implementing the MCH Services The Health workers assessed the implementation of the health services ... these services are inadequate Again, this supported the claims of the clients of the inadequacies of these services in the health centers As to the adequacy of the number of personnel, most services ... the system of implementing the MCH services as to: 3.1 adequacy in terms of their number in providing these services; 3.2 their competence in providing the services; and 3.3 adequacy of budget/supplies...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... dispensaries and clinics This combined with increased poverty levels and escalating cost of living has contributed to low utilization of both outpatient and inpatient services in the hospital In response, ... Vehicle running expenses Cleaning materials & linen Printing and stationary Motor vehicle insurances Telephone & postage Administration including security Laundry including house keeping X-ray/diagnostic ... Government is undertaking a number of health sector reforms with far reaching implications for financing health services The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is reviewing its payments to providers...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... Republic of Congo Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of ... publications was carried out based on the titles The second screening round of the remaining papers was conducted using the abstracts In the final round, the remaining publications were assessed using ... participation in PMTCT services: 1) Socio-demographic factors such as level of education, income status; 2) health services related factors such as opening hours of services, behavior of health providers...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... contributions of different categories of health workers and the role of health workers relative to other health system inputs in increasing utilization of essential services, particularly in developing ... pathways including health expenditure [17,30-32] Adult female literacy was included because of the association between education of the mother and use of services as well as the overall increase in ... areas of the country in 2002 [53] Community health workers, who are community members with basic health training and varying levels of responsibility, may also be involved in providing some of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... availability of such services in the clinic of employment and "stand-alone" testing sites in the community Stigma remained a significant reason why health care workers avoided HIV testing; it continued ... challenges of confidentiality and stigma faced by health care workers in gaining access to HIV services Conclusion As new initiatives are implemented to increase health personnel capacity in sub-Saharan ... staff avoiding or delaying HIV testing Despite these examples, many insisted that stigma was decreasing and supported disclosure of one's status as the best way to cope with a diagnosis of HIV Participants...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... state-level Treasury, permitting a greater number of basic health unit personnel to be contracted As a consequence, coverage of populations living in rural areas has increased It must be stated initially ... Others Maintain indefinitely 17 21 22 13 Maintain until finding other job Obtain a permanent position with the State Health Secretary 67 Obtain a permanent position in another public institution ... by a team of three field researchers Informed consent for all informants was obtained prior to the beginning of the interview The selection of informants in the qualitative component was purposeful...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Control in the Municipality Health, Health, Editor 2003, Instructions 19 Health Mo: Care, Health, Editor 1997, Directive 20 Health Mo: Maintenance and Improvement of Health Nursing in the Municipalities, ... motivation in general and for PA in particular, along with increasing learning outcome However, training of both managers and employees in PA procedures may be a key condition for its success in any ... self-assessment and professional learning increase when employees have compatible goal setting in a performance appraisal Self-assessment, professional learning and job motivation increase when...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... sites Counselling and testing Provider-initiated HIV testing was progressively introduced into other PHC services as health workers were trained in CT CT is provided routinely in ANC and TB programmes, ... mitigate the effects of human resource constraints on quality and sustainability of services The use of HIV-focused funding to increase numbers in the overall health workforce is increasingly essential ... the support of the Mozambique Ministry of Health and the Provincial Health Directorates of Manica and Sofala Provinces Author details University of Washington Department of Global Health, Harborview...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... number of Turkish speaking immigrants living in London Their special health issues including women’s health, mental health, and alcohol and smoking habits has been assessed The aim of this study was ... each was asked to invite 10 Turkish friends for the study As a result, 416 Turkish speaking persons were involved The target sample size was increased from 384 to 416 by the invitation of more ... approach A second limitation was the measurement of the accessibility of the health care services which was not based on pre-validated measures A number of recently validated instruments and methods...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... We were interested in assessing which of the quality of care indicator variables in EDs at different times of measurement could best discriminate between CHS with or without a chain of care structure ... (87%) of correctly classified CHS with and without a chain of care structure Including the variable 'chain of care programme during the late 1990s' in the analysis increased the correct classification ... Predictors of a chain of care structure in the CHS To examine whether quality of care indicators at EDs in 1999 could predict whether or not the CHS had a chain of care structure in 2006, a series of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... faith In terms of type of practice/facility, 57% (71/125) of nurses worked in primary health care clinics, whilst 28% (35/125) worked in comprehensive facilities The remaining 15% (19/125) of nurses ... products are being evaluated in research studies Most knowledge of microbicides was acquired recently, indicating the power of information dissemination through the MRC and other health professionals, ... being of African descent All of the HMs, 90% (9/10) of pharmacists and 84% (105/125) of nurses were from Durban The remaining single pharmacist and 16% (20/125) of nurses worked in Hlabisa Most of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... Healthcare System, Seattle, Washington, USA 2Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, USA 3HSR&D Center for Clinical Management Research ... Pitts N: Changing the behavior of healthcare professionals: the use of theory in promoting the uptake of research findings Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005, 58:107-112 Page 19 of 20 13 Grol ... starting point for better understanding of the impact of context on research utilization and more studies should explore this area of inquiry’ (p 632) Issues: • ‘No single included study was assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... skills Working with traumatised refugees and asylum -seekers User involvement in mental health worker training Involving users in designing inpatient environments Provision of IT training to service ... was released with a set of criteria and it placed an emphasis on projects demonstrating: the innovative nature of the project; multi and interdisciplinary working; use of arts in the mental health ... governance clearance was obtained in the spring of 2008, and the evaluation was completed by summer 2010 Results of the evaluation and discussion of the findings The findings summarised in this article...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... The instrument omits items measuring the fourth hypothesized component of evidence, that of "routine information." Routine information did not appear in the original model [1], but was added in ... meant to measure how good a baseball player is, might assess their throwing, fielding, and batting to create a composite score Throwing, fielding and batting may often be related – being in part ... the behavior of healthcare professionals: the use of theory in promoting the uptake of research findings Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005, 58:107-112 (ICEBeRG) The Improved Clinical Effectiveness...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... of different types of mental health services by asking: “During the last 12 months, did you seek help from any of the following service institutions in respect of a mental health problem” and ... Diagnostic Interview Short Form (CIDI-SF)[25] With this instrument we can both estimate the occurence of depression and its severity Professional help-seeking was ascertained by asking: “Have you during ... Psychiatr Services 2001, 52:953-958 35 Hämäläinen J, Isometsä E, Laukkala T, Kaprio J, Poikolainen K, Heikkinen M, Lindeman S, Aro H: Use of health services for major depressive episode in Finland J of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22