During 1999, the health sector had many efforts and obtained many important achievements in strengthening the local health network from provincial to village level, education and training of health human resource, scientific research, curative and preventative medicine as well as the quality control of food safety and hygiene. During 2000, the health sector will concentrate in 5 programs and activities including health human resource, health economy, medical technique and health and medical information, health services and political activities.
Delivery of Health Care ; Health Planning

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Delivery of Health Care* ; Health Facilities ; Health Manpower ; Health Planning* ; Korea

According to the need for objectivity and convenience the whole planning process is devided into a secries of 8 systematic stages. But it is an unending upward spiral of incremented efforts toward improvement. So many activities should be carried out concurrently, providing a mutual supportive flow back and forth between various stages of the process depending on local conditions and requirements. The eight stages are : (1) Planning the Planning and Developing Planning competence, (2) Statements of Policy and Broad Goals, (3) Data Gathering, (4) Priority Statement, (5) Statement of Major Alternative Proposals, (6) Development of Detailed Plan, (7) Implementation as a Part of the Planning Process, (8) Evaluation. The frame and function of the planning machinery must be adjusted to local conditions, and also flexibility is desirable, especially at the start, when adaptations are more necessary and more frequent.
Mental Competency ; Pliability ; Regional Health Planning*

A pilot cross-sectional study was conducted in order to identify the need and the use of HIV/AIDS counselling services and real situation at the counselling facilities in Hanoi. Data was obtained using a self-administered questionnaire to 8 groups of people with risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. These groups also took part in group discussions. Structured in-deep interviews with counsellors and observation at counselling facilities were also conducted. The need for using HIV/AIDS counselling services was low (45.7%). Only 41.6% of person who have need for counselling had used service. People living with HIV/AIDS and their families were the two main groups using these services. The reason for low utilisation was users' poor perception of HIV/AIDS infection risks. Problems from the providersm as inappropriate organisation and investment, also contributed to limit the services. The main findings suggest that increase of the perception on HIV/AIDS risk for individuals and communities is needed. In order to increase the utilisation of community services, it should be reorganised. At the same time, the counselling activities should be socialised and considered as the key task of the whole society and community, not only that of the health sector.
HIV, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Health Planning Guidelines

Background: Family planning is a critical component of maternal and child health. It ensures proper spacing of children as well as having a target desired number of children. Objective: This study aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude and practices on Family Planning among reproductive age Filipino-Muslim Women. Methodology: It was conducted in tertiary hospital in Northern Mindanao at the Out-Patient Department. Demographic and study data were gathered through a validated questionnaire. Results: Results showed that most Filipino-Muslim Women coming in for prenatal checkup were in their late twenties (28.3%), unemployed, and already with 2 to 4 pregnancies. Associations were tested using Chi Square and significant correlations between patients’ demographic characteristics and their knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding family planning. Conclusion The study concludes that there is an association between patients’ age and educational status, and their knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding family planning. Further studies can be done to establish causation between risk factors and outcomes regarding family planning. A scoring system may be developed in the future classifying mothers as likely or unlikely to practice good family planning, which will allow for targeted family planning counseling.
Family Planning Services ; Maternal Health ; Religion

The quality of reproductive health care services at studied communes were rather good, above 50% clients answered well all 5 contents. At present, the most difficulty and obstacles to ensure the quality of reproductive health care services at health stations were lack of medical equipments, and insufficience of specialized stuff and limited abilities. In order to enhance the quality of reproductive health care services at health stations, it should be done an intergrated set of solutions: Adding specialized equipments and personnel; re-educating; Improving the attitude of services.
Reproduction ; Delivery of Health Care ; Family Planning Services ; Women ; Health

OBJECTIVES: This study investigate the effect of health information technology (IT) expenditure on individual patient-level cost using California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) data obtained from 2000 to 2007. METHODS: We used a traditional cost function and applied hospital fixed effect and clustered error within hospitals. RESULTS: We found that a quadratic function of IT expenditure best fit the data. The quadratic function in IT expenditure predicts a decrease in cost of up to US$1,550 of IT labor per bed, US$27,909 of IT capital per bed, and US$28,695 of all IT expenditure per bed. Moreover, we found that IT expenditure reduced costs more quickly in medical conditions than surgical diseases. CONCLUSIONS: Interest in health IT is increasing more than ever before. Many studies examined the effect of health IT on hospital level cost. However, there have been few studies to examine the relationship between health IT expenditure and individual patient-level cost. We found that IT expenditure was associated with patient cost. In particular, we found a quadratic relationship between IT expenditure and patient-level cost. In other word, patient-level cost is non-linearly (or a polynomial of second-order degree) related to IT expenditure.
California ; Health Expenditures ; Health Planning ; Humans ; Medical Informatics

With the progress of globalization, the public health emergencies represented by major infectious diseases have become a major challenge for the public health management in China. The article briefly describes the emergency response capability assessment tools in China, and introduces two emergency response assessment tools with complete content structure and wide application in the world. Then the advantages and disadvantages of the tools are compared and discussed in order to provide reference for improvement of the assessment tools for public health emergency response capability in China.
China ; Disaster Planning ; Humans ; Public Health ; Public Health Administration

In order to reduce the health inequalities within a society changes need to be made in broad health determinants and their distribution in the population. It has been expected that the Health impact assessment(HIA) and Healthy Cities can provide opportunities and useful means for changing social policy and environment related with the broad health determinants in developed countries. HIA is any combination of procedures or methods by which a proposed 4P(policy, plan, program, project) may be judged as to the effects it may have on the health of a population. Healthy city is one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community resources which enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and in developing to their maximum potential. In Korea, social and academic interest regarding the HIA and Healthy Cities has been growing recently but the need of HIA and Healthy Cities in the perspective of reducing health inequality was not introduced adequately. So we reviewed the basic concepts and methods of the HIA and Healthy Cities, and its possible contribution to reducing health inequalities. We concluded that though the concepts and methods of the HIA and Healthy Cities are relatively new and still in need of improvement, they will be useful in approaching the issue of health inequality in Korea.
Health Planning/*methods ; Health Services Accessibility ; *Health Status Disparities ; Humans ; Korea ; *Urban Health ; Urban Population

Chronic Disease ; Communicable Diseases ; Community Health Planning ; Humans