Publications by authors named "Hamidreza Shabanikiya"
Purpose: The primary purpose of international aid is to promote economic and social development around the world. International aid plays an important role in Afghanistan's healthcare system. The purpose of this study is to investigate international aid management in Afghanistan's health sector from the perspectives of national and international managers in 2022 and to provide recommendations for the improvement.
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- The study focused on estimating the out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) for families with children under 5 suffering from severe malnutrition in a children's hospital in Herat, Afghanistan, highlighting its relevance for healthcare professionals and policymakers.
- Utilizing a cross-sectional approach, the research involved 300 families and employed a WHO-standard questionnaire to collect demographic data, ensuring a comprehensive analysis of OOPE.
- Results revealed that households incurred an average of 54% to 69% of treatment costs directly out of pocket, with 93% of families experiencing catastrophic expenses due to their child's medical needs.
Patient satisfaction is essential to the patient-centered approach in health services delivery, but little is known about satisfaction with physiotherapy services in Afghanistan. This study evaluated patients' satisfaction with physiotherapy services and related factors in this country. This study was conducted on 420 recipients of a physiotherapy center in Afghanistan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Family planning is a cornerstone to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. However, men's involvement in family planning has been a challenge in many countries. This study aimed to investigate the participation of men in the family planning programs and related factors from the perspective of women referring to family planning organizations in Herat, Afghanistan 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Affordable access to quality medicines is a critical target of global efforts to achieve universal health coverage. The aim of this study is to measure the affordability and accessibility of cardiovascular medicines in the city of Herat, Afghanistan.
Methods: The price, affordability, and availability data for 18 most sold generic (MSG) and lowest priced generic (LPG) products were collected from public and private pharmacies located in Herat city in Afghanistan in 2020, which in each area, six pharmacies were randomly selected from a combination of public and private ones based on the standardized methodology developed by WHO/HAI.
Background And Aims: The COVID-19 pandemic poses an extraordinary threat to global public health. We designed an ecological study to explore the association between socioeconomic factors and the COVID-19 outcomes in 184 countries, using the geographic map and multilevel regression models.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional ecological study in 184 countries.
Purpose: To identify the predictors of nurses' presence at hospitals at the time of three types of disasters.
Design: This cross-sectional study was performed using a researcher-generated questionnaire.
Methods: This study was performed on 350 nurses of five public hospitals.
Objectives: The leading factors of paediatric, pedestrian road traffic injuries (PPRTIs) are associated with the characteristics of immediate environment. Spatial analysis of data related to PPRTIs could provide useful knowledge for public health specialists to prevent and decrease the number of accidents. Therefore, we aim to release the datasets which have been used to conduct a multiple-scale spatial analysis of PPRTIs in the city of Mashhad, Iran, between 2015-2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Paediatric, pedestrian road traffic injuries (PPRTIs) constitute a major cause of premature death in Iran. Identification of high-risk areas would be the primary step in designing policy intervention for PPRTI reduction because environmental factors play a significant role in these events. The present study aims to determine high-risk areas for PPRTIs at three different geographical scales, including the grid network, the urban neighbourhood and the street levels in Mashhad, Iran during the period 2015-2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hospital administrators play a key role in the effective management of surge capacity in disasters, but there is little information available about the characteristics required to manage this.
Objectives: In this study, we aimed to identify characteristics of hospital administrators that are important in the effective management of surge capacity in disasters.
Materials And Methods: This was a qualitative study.