Health system in the Health Region of Lisbon and Tagus Valley: beyond health centers and hospitals

INTRODUCTION:
This article describes the economic health complex in the Health Region of Lisbon and the Tagus River.
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Profile and professional expectations of medical students in Mozambique: a longitudinal study

INTRODUCTION: This paper compares the socioeconomic profile of medical students registered at the Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (FM-UEM), Maputo, for the years 1998/99 and 2007/08. CASE STUDY: The objective is to describe the medical students’ social and geographical origins, expectations and perceived difficulties regarding their education and professional future. Data were collected […]
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“Representações de mulheres em idade fértil e profissionais de saúde sobre utilização de cuidados de saúde reprodutiva”

OBJECTIVE:
Ascertaining poor and not poor women’s representations about fecundity and verifying how this affectedreproductive health care use (maternal health care and family planning), as well ashealthcare professionals’representationsabout “poor” women-fecundity patternsand reproductive healthcare use.
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Healthcare access and the patterns of maternal health care utilization among poor and non-poor women living in urban areas in Portugal

Autores: Alho AM, Alho A, Jeyaseeli L
Link: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=40475

Studies on attitudes and practices are increasingly used but not specifically related to the motivations for the use of reproductive health care among women of fertile age, living in urban areas and in different social contexts.
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What influences national and foreign physicians’ geographic distribution? An analysis of medical doctors’ residence location in Portugal.

BACKGROUND:
The debate over physicians’ geographical distribution has attracted the attention of the economic and public health literature over the last forty years. Nonetheless, it is still to date unclear what influences physicians’ location, and whether foreign physicians contribute to fill the geographical gaps left by national doctors in any given country.
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