Background Primary health care (PHC) encompasses an array of health and social services
that focus on preventative, diagnostic, and basic care measures to maintain wellbeing and …

Explore the evolution of organization theory in the health care sector Advances in Health
Care Organization Theory, 2nd Edition, introduces students in health administration to the …

Background: Rural health houses constitute a major provider of some primary health
services in the villages of Iran. Given the challenges of providing health services in rural …

The preconditions for applying GIS-based location-allocation analysis for health service
planning in rural Ghana are examined in terms of data availability and quality. A population …

The study addresses population dynamics in Ghana on the urban and regional levels
between 1984 and 2000. At the urban level, the development trends are analyzed for urban …

Background Health service areas are essential for planning, policy and managing public
health interventions. In this study, we delineate health service areas from routinely collected …

This chapter presents the case for the application of social network analysis (SNA)—also
referred to as social network theory or simply network theory—to the study of organizations …

The transition to the free-market economy following the break-up of a socialist block in early
1990s totally transformed the pastoralist husbandry in Mongolia from state-supported …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure the spatial accessibility of primary
healthcare facility in Ghanaian rural areas, by determining the barriers to healthcare …

This study sought to identify the major barriers to health service access for a special section
of the Kenya community, namely, a rural community in a semi-arid environment, using …