Research Papers/Topics in Health Administration and Management

Professional misconduct: Cross practice in allopathic hospitals of Bangalore city P.A. Balaji,a* S.K. Karthik,b Syed Sadat Ali,a Mohan,b G. Jayaprakash

Various systems of medicine such as allopathy, homeopathy, ayurveda, siddha, unani, etc. are practiced in India.  According to the Indian law, a person who is registered under a particular system of medicine should not practice  an alternate system. If someone practices the alternate system it is called cross practice, and it amounts to  professional misconduct. In the present study, a survey was carried out in 20 allopathic hospitals in Bangalore city  to study the trend of cross practic...

Pitfalls of Financing Healthcare in Nigeria

Introduction The 2020 World Bank data estimates Nigeria's population to be about 202 million. Nigeria is also a multi-ethnic federation with 36 states spread across 6 geopolitical regions (North-Central, North-West, North-East, South-South, South-East, and South-West) and the Federal Capital Territory. The country's major source of revenue is oil and gas, with a Gross domestic product (GDP) of 23.4 billion USD. Health expenditure accounts for 3.7% of the total GDP and the total per capital e...

Effect of Peer Education on Deaf Secondary School Students' HIV/ AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes and Sexual Behaviour

ABSTRACT This study evaluated the effect of an AIDS education program on deaf secondary school students' knowledge, attitude and perceived susceptibility to AIDS using peer education. Two secondary schools matched fur ownership (government), composition (mixture of hearing and deaf and teaching arrangement (separate teaching of deaf students using sign language) were used, and each school was randomly allocated the intervention or control status. All students completed a questionnaire on AIDS...

The Structure and Function of Research. Ethics Committees in Africa: A Case Study

According to international guidelines [1,2] and several nations' laws [3-5], research with humans requires independent ethics committee review. In the United Slates, committees are called institutional review boards (IRBs) [6]; elsewhere they generally are called research ethics committees (RECs). Committees are designed to: provide third party review, thereby minimizing conflicts of interest; protect the welfare of research participants through attention to risks, benefits, and informed cons...

THE COMPLEMENTARY ROLE OF PRIVATE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS: PERSPECTIVES OF THE REGULATOR, PROVIDER AND CARE SEEKERS IN THE UPPER WEST REGION OF GHANA

This study explored the perspectives of regulators, private healthcare providers and healthcare seekers on the complementary role of private sector providers in the Upper West Region of Ghana. A mixed method approach was adopted. Key informant interviews were conducted with regional and district directors of health services as regulators, and managers of private healthcare facilities as providers, while a semi-structured questionnaire was administered to healthcare seekers. The World Health O...