As of April 12, 2020, a total of 389 cases of coronavirus disease were confirmed in Jordan. To control this imminent threat, Jordan has enforced public health infection prevention and control measures, called for social distancing, seized all forms of inbound and outbound movement and international travel, and enacted the Defence Law that transferred the authority to the Minister of Defence to work and formulate orders according to the situation. In an effort to support the government in anticipating the requirements of the health system in the upcoming period, an in-depth reflection and examination of different scenarios of the disease spread were developed. This viewpoint suggests different strategies and measures for case detection and contact tracing, clinical management of cases, public health system functioning, and civil society organizations’ contribution. It is necessary to accelerate containment of the disease to protect the economy and to maintain the continuity of some activities to mitigate the subsequent social, economic, and financial impacts. This requires finding a coping mechanism for a period that may be prolonged until laboratories develop a vaccine. Specifically, it is strongly recommended to promote community health awareness toward public health prevention and control measures, increase the efficiency and comprehensiveness of the epidemiological investigation and active and passive surveillance, and employ technology and digital health solutions to track cases and contacts. It is also recommended to increase and expand resources of intensive care units including respirators, increase the capacity and the number of trained health staff in the area of public health and epidemiology, ensure continued provision of essential public health programs, and mobilize the resources of nongovernmental sectors and donors to provide services for refugees and vulnerable populations.

The purpose of this study is to test The Influence of Training on The Employee's Performance and The Quality of Medical Services on Jordanian Private Hospitals). The data of this study were collected through a (380) questionnaire distributed for all types of job in the Jordanian private hospitals). Grynbach constancy coefficients reached 79%, Percentages, means, standard deviation, ANOVA, and, multiple regressions analysis were used to test the study hypotheses, the results indicate that there's a strong relationship between the training component in general and the independent variables (application the stages of training process, training programs diversity, and used modern technology in training programs), there is a variation influence of the training component (combined) on the Performance of workers, quality of medical services, and organizational commitment. And the most influential on is the quality of medical services, the lowest influential one is the organizational commitments, and there's no influence of the used modern technology in training programs as one of the training component on the organizational commitments. On the light of the study results the following recommendations may be submitted create an appropriate regulatory climate, annual training plan, for the process of training and providing appropriate incentives for the trainees, increased the budget allocated for training, in the Jordanian private hospitals, give workers opportunity to choose the training programs, and rationalized administrative decisions regarding the training programs.

Home care aims at supporting people with various degrees of dependency to remain at home rather than use residential, long-term, or institutional-based nursing care. Demographic, epidemiological, social, and cultural trends in Jordan as in other countries are changing the traditional patterns of care with growing emphasis on home care. The purpose of this study is to highlight the most common challenges related to home health care (HHC) services in Jordan as perceived by the managers of HHC agencies. Methods: a descriptive qualitative design that depends on focus group discussions has been used to collect data from a sample of 18 managers who met the selection criteria and who are willing to participate, the study found that, the main challenges of HHC services as perceived by managers were: shortage of female staff, lack of governance and regulation, poor management, unethical practices, lack of referral systems, and low accessibility of the poor and less privileged as HHC services are not included in health insurance schemes, it concludes also that the home health care industry in Jordan is facing many challenges and problems that may have negative effects on the effectiveness, efficiency, equity and quality of services and should be addressed by health policy makers.

UNSTRUCTURED In contemporary times, the wave of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) classified by the World Health Organisation as global pandemic has unravelled systems and processes including health, economic and social. In the case of the Kingdom of Jordan, the COVID-19 crisis illustrated for the need and ability of the policy making institutions and ministries to take many effective policies, initiatives and procedures that were met with marked approval as the opinion polls conducted by government and private institutions showed. The success of these interventions during the crisis calls upon the country’s health system to take advantage of this experience in the next stage of recovery and resilience to develop, maintain its sustainability, as well as the improvement of a number of hubs to assist the Kingdom in facing the challenges resulting from any future health crisis such as epidemics or natural disasters. The viewpoint interventions that are the most paramount given the current situation as public health evidence must inform activities in seven priority health system areas to manage during and after the pandemic includes factors on: (1) governance and management; (2) service delivery and research; (3) human resources; (4) health information systems; (5) technology and medicine; (6) health financing; and (7) citizens, refugees and communities.

SUMMARYBackground The unplanned urbanization in Jordan has over time created many informal settlements "slums" around big cities as Amman, Zerka and Aqaba. The purpose of this study was to highlight the most common challenges related to social determinants of health in two selected slum areas in Amman and Aqaba and suggest policy directions and interventions to meet these challenges. Methods In addition to a prestructured interview with all household heads living in the two slum sites, focus group meetings with a purposefully selected sample of 12 slum dwellers in each site were used to assess the structural and intermediary determinants of health as perceived by slum residents in the two study locations. Results The study found that slum residents in the two locations suffer from many challenges as severe poverty; unemployment; illiteracy and low education attainments; gender discrimination; insufficient and poor diet; social and official exclusion; unhealthy environment; lack of water supply, electricity and basic sanitation facilities; high prevalence of diseases; and insufficient and inappropriate health services. Specific policy directions to meet these challenges were recommended and grouped into three main clusters: social protection, social inclusion and empowerment. Conclusion New plans and tools should be developed by local authorities in Jordan to understand, protect, include and empower those vulnerable people who are forced to live in these unhealthy and inhuman environments.