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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Task-shifting: experiences and opinions of health workers in Mozambique and Zambia.

Autores: Alves-Pires C, Alho A, Nunes-Pereira M, Bahia MT
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Task-shifting%3A+experiences+and+opinions+of+health+workers+in+Mozambique+and+Zambia

BACKGROUND:
This paper describes the task-shifting taking place in health centres and district hospitals in Mozambique and Zambia. The objectives of this study were to identify the perceived causes and factors facilitating or impeding task-shifting, and to determine both the positive and negative consequences of task-shifting for the service users, for the services and for health workers.
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Pharmaceutical services cost analysis using time-driven activity based costing in a sample of Portuguese community pharmacies

Autores: Baptista-Fernandes T, Barbosa-Ferreira JM, Almeida LM

Pharmacists have experienced an expansion of their role in the last decades, developing the scope of
services offered. One challenge that pharmacists face when obtaining payment from patients is establishing a price for the service that is sufficient to support it, and is perceived as a good value by the patient. However, little research has been conducted on the costs of pharmaceutical services (PS) in Portugal. To accurately calculate costs it is important to use a costing methodology that supports itself on real-world data. This study describes the development and application of a Time-driven Activity Based Costing (TDABC) model in a sample of pharmacies in Portugal, with the objective of calculating the cost of the PS provided.
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Health workers’ attitudes toward immigrant patients: a cross-sectional survey in primary health care services.

BACKGROUND:
Health workers’ attitudes toward immigrant patients influence behaviour, medical decisions, quality of care and health outcomes. Despite the increasing number of immigrant patients in health services and the potential influence of health workers’ attitudes, there is little research in this area. This study aimed to examine attitudes of different health workers’ groups toward immigrant patients and to identify the associated factors.
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Health services and the treatment of immigrants: data on service use, interpreting services and immigrant staff members in services across Europe.

BACKGROUND:
The number of immigrants using health services has increased across Europe. For assessing and improving the quality of care provided for immigrants, information is required on how many immigrants use services, what interpreting services are provided and whether staff members are from immigrant groups.
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What influences national and foreign physicians’ geographic distribution? An analysis of medical doctors’ residence location in Portugal.

Task-shifting: experiences and opinions of health workers in Mozambique and Zambia.

Pharmaceutical services cost analysis using time-driven activity based costing in a sample of Portuguese community pharmacies

Health workers’ attitudes toward immigrant patients: a cross-sectional survey in primary health care services.

Health services and the treatment of immigrants: data on service use, interpreting services and immigrant staff members in services across Europe.

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