The Applications, Hazardous and Mechanisms to Deal with Mercury in Hospitals: Statistical Questionnaire in some Hospitals in Damascus

It is evident that mercury and its use in healthcare institutions have attracted the attention of academics, research centers and governments. This paper conducts a preliminary induction analysis of the awareness level of healthcare providers at somehospitals in Damascus about some key issues related to mercury. It employed the statistical approach mainly the random sampling method to answer its questions and fulfill its aims. The data obtained from questionnaires were processed by Excel. The paper found differences in awareness and training levels among healthcare providers with regards to methods of exposure and mercury transition to human body. It further identified sever weakness in testing and measuring the exposure of healthcare providers to mercury. The study pointed that there is an urgent need to train medical doctors and dentists with regards to the storage procedures of mercury and disposal methods of material and tools containing mercury. Finally, the research found that education efforts both at individual (personal) and aggregate (institutional) levels in all issues related to mercury are unsatisfactory.

The Level of Lattakia Private Hospitals Adherence to Promotion mixture Elements "A Field Study"

Private hospitals play an important role in the health services sector for their excellent services, and they work along with public hospitals in treating all causes of disease and patients. So, there is an insistent need to create special departmentfor promotion because it provides the hospital administration with the necessary information for developing and forecasting the future problems and seizing the opportunity and help it influence positively on the individual behavior. This research aims to recognize the level of lattakia private hospitals adherence to promotion mixture elements which help them to promote their services. The research ends up to the following results: the private hospitals don't depend on the elements of promotion mixture, from personal selling and advertising, public relationships, to sales promotion in promoting their health services. And there is no specific marketing and promotion strategy in hospitals under study, In addition, the absence of special department of marketing in hospitals under study that makes decision about the image that the hospital administration want to create in minds of peoples.