What Are the Determinants of Health System Performance? Findings from the Literature and a Technical Expert Panel - ScienceDirectThe Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
The BMI does not consider the body type of either individual or whether their weight is mostly muscle or fat. Indeed, many Olympic athletes – who we tend to think of as the fittest of the fit – would register as overweight or obese according to the BMI scale because they have a larger...
Health promotion, the social determinants of health, and urban health: what does a critical discourse analysis of World Health Organization texts reveal about health equity? The World Health Organization (WHO) has focused on health equity as part of its mandate and broader agenda鈥攃onsider for ...
One of the most significant demographic challenges over the past three decades has been the substantial reduction in fertility rates, worldwidely. As a developing country, Iran has also experienced a rapid decline in fertility over the past decades. Unde
Even though the four science MCAT subjects cover roughly equal numbers of topics within them, this does not mean that all science topics have equal weight in your finalMCAT score. On the MCAT, biology (at 65% of the Bio/Biochem MCAT section) will be by far the most important of the fou...
Background Graduates of environmental health engineering should be able to manage Social Determinants of Health (SDH) and acquire the essential competencies during their studies at university. This study was performed to determine the expected competencies of environmental health graduates in a way to be...
Produce organizational case studies of participating long covid clinics to explain their origins, evolution, leadership, ethos, population served, patient pathways and place in the wider healthcare ecosystem. (4) Examine these case studies to explain variation in practice, especially in topics where ...
General practice clinical care can be thought of as a material resource. Evidence exists at many levels that this resource is inequitably distributed. But encounters in general practice are profoundly social processes, embedded in wider society. Debating and reflecting on the values underpinning ...
sender encodes and transmits a message that is received and decoded by a recipient. The linear model of communication suggests communication moves in one direction only. The sender transmits a message to the receiver, but the receiver does not transmit a response or provide feedback to the ...
Social determinants of health are known to contribute to inequality in outcomes, though the impact on pediatric rare disease patients is not fully understood. Diagnostic genetic testing is a powerful tool, though it may not be available to all in need. This article represents the first effort, ...