جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « home health » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of theory based education on the performance of health workers in samples from patients with diarrhea in the home health eltour city of Taft in the years 2016. This was a quasi-experimental study as pretest and posttest associated with a control group.
In this study, 90 people were selected as convenience sampling in case and control groups. The study population included all health workers in the city of Taft in Yazd province . The independent variable was education based on health belief model in the experimental group. Data was collected using A researcher made questionnaire on the performance made with 8 subscales, which its validity and reliability were calculated according to a small sample. The questionnaire was administered to both groups in the pre-test and post-test. Data was analyzed using the descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, and charts, as well a inferential statistics such as T- test was used for testing hypotheses.
the statistical analysis of data showed that there is a significant difference on sample between experimental and control groups following the educational intervention Our findings showed that there was no significant difference after entering the independent variable Statistical analysis showed that between the mean scores of the difference between performance in both groups. This means that the independent variable of education based on the health belief model increased the performance of health worker in dimensions such as awareness and behavior, and structures such as perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, self-efficacy and guidance for action in the case group.
Considering the limitations of the study, the results showed that education based on the health belief model is one of the most effective ways to improve the performance of health workers.

Costs can influence the quality of health services. Estimation of the costs of the health care services is an important issue that has always preoccupied the minds of the managers of the health system. This study aimed to assess the costs of rural health centers and primary health centers in Kurdistan Province in 2014.
Material and This cross-sectional study included 30 rural health centers and 182 primary health centers of kurdisatn University of Medical Sciences in 2014. Costs were determined on the basis of activity-based costing. Costs were divided into direct and indirect categories. Direct costs were related to personnel, consumable and non-consumable materials, energy , repairs , car and rural family physician. Indirect costs, included costs imposed by the city health centers, deputy of health , deputy of logistics and finance, and university chancellor's office.
Direct costs of the health centers in 2014 amounted to 971,722,394 Rials. The highest proportion of the costs belonged to rural family physician (76.2%) and the lowest was related to the health workers (18.6%) . The costs of each rural health center ran to 1,515,851,000 Rials . Direct costs of a rural center including its primary health centers amounted to 7,628,981,000 Rials. Indirect costs, including costs imposed by the city health centers, deputy of health , deputy of logistics and finance, and university chancellor's office were 479,345,000 Rials.
Considering the average costs of rural health centers, the annual budget allocated to the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, is low, and can affect the quality of basic health services for rural areas.

One of the most important factors for disease risk is the undesirable health condition of the houses. The dark, damp and unsanitary house exposes residents to TB. As the housing status is crucial in establishing the conditions for the transmission of TB, this study was designed to survey the situation of housing environmental health of tuberculosis patients in Yazd on transmission of communicable diseases according to World Health Organization standards in 2010. In this descriptive study, the housing status of all TB patients of Yazd in 86 cases were collected through a questionnaire survey, observation, and measurement. Results showed that the houses in 22.1 % of cases were made of adobe and mud, 3.55% having average density of room, 50% of houses had insufficient natural light, 54.7 % had unfavorable natural ventilation, and 26.7 %, inadequate heating appliances. Also 32.6 % of the floor, 32.6 % of the walls, 37.2 % of the ceilings, 22.1 % of the sewage disposal, 12.8 % of drinking water, 20.9% of garbage collection, 11.6% of keeping-pet places, and 20.9% of waste disposal were in unhealthy conditions. In addition, 2.3% of these houses lacked toilet and 7% lacked bathroom. Comparing the housing condition of people with TB via the existing standards, the status is assessed as unfavorable. Thus improvement of the tuberculosis condition calls for the education programs to inform people of such disadvantages. Also the attention of housing stakeholders and relevant agencies should be drawn to help low-income people.