In this thesis, we describe the results of a research project that aimed to measure and evaluate quality of care in referral hospitals in Mali and Senegal. In these countries, hospital maternal mortality is high and linked, in part, to inadequate medical practice. This research …
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Grouping existing providers under a franchised brand, supported by training, advertising, and supplies, is a potentially important way of improving access and assuring quality to some types of clinical medical services. While franchising has great potential to increase service d…
Partial failure of tuberculosis control programs is assumed to be due to less emphasis on the communication aspect between the professional health care sector and the popular health care sector. Tuberculosis is today a widespread threat, in particular in certain rural areas of E…
The objective of this study is to measure and compare the major factors influencing consumers' use of Public medical services and of Private medical services: Private doctor and Private nurse/paramedic/midwife, using a sample of adults from 1993 Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFL…
This project explores the dynamics of medical innovation using the development of deep brain stimulation therapy in paediatric neurology as a case study. Ethnographic research was conducted with a multidisciplinary clinical team developing a novel clinical service that uses deep…
This study assesses the extent to which employees and users of public services can develop collaborative partnerships that promote person-centred services within institutions. Both citizen and worker participation are currently advocated as a means to develop public services, ye…
Intensive investments have been made in the development of Afghanistan's health sector following decades of conflict, but little is known about service quality and the perceptions of clients. This study describes an innovative approach to health service performance assessment in…
There is an urgent need for innovative methods to generate information to evaluate post-conflict reconstruction, especially in the health sector. In order to translate the immediate response into a systematic medium and long term health strategy, baseline estimates of health ser…
The Department of Defense (including the three branches of the military service, i.e. Army, Navy, Air Force) is implementing a new financing structure. The rollout of the "Revised Financing Methodology" to their Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) throughout the Department of D…
Afghanistan's health sector reconstruction relies on contracting for service delivery. Each major health sector donor funded different approaches to contracting. The key differences between the contracting-out approaches are whether NGOs receive performance incentives, the inten…
CONTEXT: Mobile phones are a popular technology capable of portable computing and data access. These features could be helpful for delivering health care services. OBJECTIVE: This study examined health consumers' perceptions of mobile phone health services and their intentions t…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has experienced increase in health expenditure and the demand for healthcare services. Health statistics indicate inefficiency in resource utilization within the healthcare system, particularly in the hospital sector. This thesis assessed the ef…
Background: Contracting for health services has been shown to improve utilization and quality of basic health services in rural Afghanistan. However, there is lack of conclusive evidence on the effect of contracting on health inequities. There are four main contracting types in …
This thesis aims to evaluate the implementation of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) based on a case organization; the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH-RC). The study is an exploratory investigation. Understanding BSC perspectives is important for academic co…
The thesis describes the development, research and evaluation of the applicability of a new model of care that involves GPs being employed on a sessional basis in A&E departments to treat patients attending with primary care needs. The main aim of the study was to research its c…
This study investigates the ways in which nurses socially construct their health value systemskhatejadidand the ways in which they interpret their nursing practices. On the basis of the contradictionskhatejadiduncovered by the research, a new approach to health education is sugg…
Amaç: Bu araştırma, sağlık hizmetleri alanı öğrencilerinin öz-etkililik-yeterlik düzeyinin klinik uygulamada yaşadıkları stresle ilişkisini belirlemek amacıyla gerçekleştirildi. Gereç ve Yöntem: Araştırma, tanımlayıcı ve karşılaştırmalı tipte bir çalışmadır. Araştırmanın örnekle…
Because of the increasing severity of adolescent problem behavior, evidence-based practices are becoming of interest as an alternative to traditional treatment with the behavior problems of adolescents in juvenile justice settings. Despite interest in evidence-based practices, q…