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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Experiences with treating immigrants: A qualitative study in mental health services across 16 European countries

Autores: Itoe MA, Alam MZ, J. Couto, J. Couto, J. de la Fuente, J. de la Fuente, J. Piedade, J. Ferrolho, Jaenson T, J. Ferrolho, Itoe MA, Jackson Y, Jackson Y, Jacob JM, Jacob JM, J. Piedade
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22714866

While there has been systematic research on the experiences of immigrant patients in mental health services within certain European countries, little research has explored the experiences of mental health professionals in the delivery of services to immigrants across Europe. This study sought to explore professionals’ experiences of delivering care to immigrants in districts densely populated with immigrants across Europe.
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Programmes and calls for public health research in European countries

Autores: Craveiro I, Craveiro I
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24189793

Public health research, at population and organizational level, needs to be identified independently within ‘health’ research from biomedicine and life sciences. In PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe), we investigated the extent and character of public health research calls and programmes in European countries.
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Trends of cross-border mobility of physicians and nurses between Portugal and Spain

Autores: Alves-Pires C, AM
Link: http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/11/1/36

Health workforce cross-border mobility has an impact not only on individual health workers, but also on how health services are organized, planned, and delivered. This paper presents the results of a study of current mobility trends of health professionals along the borders between Portugal and Spain. The objective was to describe the profile of mobile physicians and nurses; to elicit the opinions of employers on mobility factors; to describe incentive policies to retain or attract health professionals; and to collect and analyse employers’ opinions on the impact of this mobility on their health services.
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PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe): methods, structures and evaluation

Autores: Cravo P, Craveiro I, Ceita J, Craveiro I, Cravo P
Link: http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/suppl_2/6

Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe (PHIRE), building on previous European collaborative projects, was developed to assess national uptake and impacts of European public health innovations, to describe national public health research programmes, strategies and structures and to develop participation of researchers through the organizational structures of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA). This article describes the methods used.
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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

Experiences with treating immigrants: A qualitative study in mental health services across 16 European countries

Programmes and calls for public health research in European countries

Trends of cross-border mobility of physicians and nurses between Portugal and Spain

PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe): methods, structures and evaluation

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