This paper investigated the delivery of health services based on data recorded at two medium-sized hospitals: Erenkoy Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of quality management systems in terms of certification...

Obesity is a global epidemic and despite being a major leading cause of death and disease, is not viewed to be as perilous and critical as other epidemics such as cholera, dengue fever or West Nile virus. Excessive and unhealthy consumption practices are killing people and costing millions of...

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...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Local transmission of the disease has been recorded in many countries across all six WHO regions. A poor...

Private and public third-party payers - particularly Medicare - are experimenting with financial incentives that reward health care providers for delivering recommended medical care. While quot;pay for performancequot; (P4P) has the potential to improve quality in some instances, it can also...

Policy refers to a broad guideline framed by the government for some desired changes in a state. Policy entrepreneurs are persons who strive to introduce desired changes in the policies and they work with various bodies to get the policies implemented. Policy entrepreneurship on the other hand...

Government of Rajasthan spent 42% of state budget on social sector. Majority of this amount is use to provide social security safety net to the poor and poorest families living in outreach areas of the state through various social protection schemes. While increase in number of social protection...

Patients in the United States are routinely undertreated for pain. This problem has been widely recognized and documented in medical literature. In a seminal medical study of end-of-life care, researchers found that 50% of all patients who died during hospitalization quot;experienced moderate or...

Mental health is found to be reinforced by personality traits and among the Eysenck's personality traits Neuroticism has a significant inverse influence on the behaviour. The current study examines the influence of neurotic personality dimension on the mental health among the youth in Kerala....