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Factors Affecting Patient Satisfaction With Healthcare System Of Turkey, Serdar Aydin
Factors Affecting Patient Satisfaction With Healthcare System Of Turkey, Serdar Aydin
Theses and Dissertations
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health system as comprising of all the organizations, resources, and institutions dedicated to improving health. Health systems have a responsibility not just to improve the health of the population they serve but to provide financial protection against the costs of illness and to respond to people’s expectation with dignity. Besides, healthcare satisfaction and consumer satisfaction have become the latest trend in measuring quality to have a competitive advantage or best practice in the healthcare industry. Over the past 30 years, consumer satisfaction has gained widespread recognition as a measure of quality in many services …
Social Support, Weight Loss Attempts And Satisfaction, Allison Drew
Social Support, Weight Loss Attempts And Satisfaction, Allison Drew
Theses and Dissertations
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which the presence of social support correlates with attempts at weight loss in the past 12 months, attempts not to gain weight in the past 12 months, and participants’ satisfaction with their weight status. Methods: We used a cross-sectional study design using data collected by the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) (CDC). For this study we included males and females, of multiple ethnicities, and a range of ages from 40 to 70 + years. Participants with missing data on height and weight were …