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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Implementing ehealth services for enhanced pharmaceutical care provision: Opportunities and challenges

Autores: Baptista-Fernandes T, Kovats A, Baptista-Fernandes T, Barbara McPake, Casaca A
Link: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36981-0_40

ePharmaCare aims at estimating the health gains from integration of pharmaceutical services; and to assess the potential of ehealth services in the provision of cognitive pharmaceutical services.
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Continuity and change in human resources policies for health: lessons from Brazil

Autores: Calado RA, Alves-Pires C, Bahia MT
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Continuity+and+change+in+human+resources+policies+for+health%3A+lessons+from+Brazil

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This paper reports on progress in implementing human resources for health (HRH) policies in Brazil, in the context of the implementation and expansion of the Unified Health System (Sistema Unico de Saúde – SUS).
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Teamwork in primary care: Perspectives of general practitioners and community nurses in Lithuania

Autores: Kontrimiene A, Kósa Z, Korn K, Barbara McPake, Kontrimiene A, Korn K
Link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/14/118

A team approach in primary care has proven benefits in achieving better outcomes, reducing health care costs, satisfying patient needs, ensuring continuity of care, increasing job satisfaction among health providers and using human health care resources more efficiently. However, some research indicates constraints in collaboration within primary health care (PHC) teams in Lithuania. The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of teamwork in Lithuania by exploring the experiences of teamwork by general practitioners (GPs) and community nurses (CNs) involved in PHC.
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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

Implementing ehealth services for enhanced pharmaceutical care provision: Opportunities and challenges

Continuity and change in human resources policies for health: lessons from Brazil

Teamwork in primary care: Perspectives of general practitioners and community nurses in Lithuania

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