A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE COMPREHENSIVE QUALITY STANDARDS OF ACCREDITED AND NONACCREDITED RURAL HEALTH UNITS FROM HEALTH MINISTRY IN A VARIANT DEVELOPMENT LEVEL VILLAGES IN SHARKIA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT

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Branch of Rural Sociology and Agric. Exten., Agric. Econ. Dept., Fac. Agric., Zagazig Univ., Egypt

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The core objective of this Research is to explore the main variables influencing on the accreditation of Rural Health Units in Sharkia governorate. The field study was conducted in the most advanced and the less advanced villages in Sharkia Governorate on the rural health units, data were collected by a questionnaire by face to face structured interviews with a simple random sample of (71) of managers of rural health units  (20% from 354 units), 34 accredited rural health units (17 units from the most advanced villages and 17 units from the less advanced villages), and 37 nonaccredited rural health units (18 units from the most advanced villages and 19 units from the less advanced villages).
These data were collected during the period from the beginning of September to the end of November 2015. Binary logistic regression forward (conditional) results showed that only four standards from fifteen standards had positive significant influences on the variable accreditation the rural health units, these standards together explained 75% of total variance (quality of firm management 61.7%, quality of Infection control clinical safety 4.5%, quality of quality improvement programme 7.4%, and quality  of  information management 1.4%).
 

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Journal of Productivity and Development
Volume 22, Issue 2
April 2017
Pages 377-408

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