The article is an attempt at diagnosing training needs of the employees of units operating in health care sector in the Podkarpacie Province. In times of permanent changes affecting each sphere of economy, providers of health care services cannot afford to remain outside this trend. Improving...

In the late 1990s, the FDA opened the floodgates for pharmaceutical companies to advertise their products directly to patient-consumers. Due to this direct-to-consumer advertising and the advent of the Internet, which together provide ready access to large quantities of generic and sometimes...

Two of the issues facing the South African Health Care System are the shortage of nursing staff and a lack o f adequate skills to provide quality patient care. The hospital under study experienced a critical shortage o f applications from professional registered nurses, consequently a staffing...

Background: This short communication report some new results obtained from a medical survey among 900 Vietnamese patients in 2015, looking into possibly influential sociodemographic factors as far as patient satisfaction is concerned, to establish empirical relationships between them for policy...

Despite the country’s policies and programs towards universal health care, health is not improving as well as expected, which suggests that households still face significant barriers to their choice of and access to health care, and their timing of use of health services. Using a nationally...

In recent years in Italy, as in other European countries, profound changes have been introduced in health care both at central and regional levels. Most of them were oriented towards a shift from 'hospital-centered' health care to health care based more on primary care services. This transition...