Skill mix between physicians and nurses in Portugal: Legal barriers to change

Knowing that the legal framework that regulates each of these professions can hinder the review of their respective scope of practice, we assessed the need to change the Portuguese law in order to allow adjustments in nursing staff tasks’ boundaries.
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Negotiating Markets for Health: An Exploration of Physicians’ Engagement in Dual Practice in Three African Capital Cities

Autores: Alho A, Bahia MT, Bemfica Barbosa Ferreira JM, Almeida LM
Link: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/09/26/heapol.czt071

Scarce evidence exists on the features, determinants and implications of physicians’ dual practice, especially in resource-poor settings. This study considered dual practice patterns in three African cities and the respective markets for physician services, with the objective of understanding the influence of local determinants on the practice.
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Why do some physicians in portuguese-speaking african countries work exclusively for the private sector? Findings from a mixed-methods study

Autores: Alves-Pires C, Alho A, Almeida LM, Bahia MT
Link: http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/12/1/51

Despite the growing interest in the private health sector in low- and middle-income countries, little is known about physicians working outside the public sector. The present work adopts a mixed-methods approach to explore characteristics, working patterns, choices, and motivations of the physicians working exclusively for the private sector in the capital cities of Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, and Mozambique.
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On the margins of aid orthodoxy: The Brazil-Mozambique collaboration to produce essential medicines in Africa

Autores: Bonfim I, Almeida LM, Boni M, Boni M
Link: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/10/1/70

This paper looks into practicalities and evolution of this collaboration to illustrate the characteristics of Brazilian development cooperation in health, with the aim of drawing lessons for the wider debate on aid and local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa.
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Ebolavirosis: a 2014 Review for Clinicians

Autores: Bittencourt A
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25409219

Ebolavirosis, like Marburgvirosis, are African zoonosis, and for both the primary animal reservoir are bats. It is a typical acute haemorrhagic fever, characterized by a high lethality rate. In an outbreak, the human index case became infected after contact with an infected animal or its blood, in most cases during hunting.
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Skill mix between physicians and nurses in Portugal: Legal barriers to change

Negotiating Markets for Health: An Exploration of Physicians’ Engagement in Dual Practice in Three African Capital Cities

Why do some physicians in portuguese-speaking african countries work exclusively for the private sector? Findings from a mixed-methods study

On the margins of aid orthodoxy: The Brazil-Mozambique collaboration to produce essential medicines in Africa

Ebolavirosis: a 2014 Review for Clinicians

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