Competitive funding and structures for public health research in European countries

Authors: Conceição C, Grimaud O, Katreniakova Z, McCarthy M, Narkauskaité L, Saliba A, Sammut M
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: European Journal of Public Health
Link: http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/suppl_2/39

The European Union is giving increasing emphasis to research as a driver for innovation and economic development. The European collaborative study PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe) investigated the funding and structures of public health research at national level in European countries.
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Impact of innovations in national public health markets in Europe

Authors: Alexanderson K, Conceição C, Grimaud O, Katreniakova Z, McCarthy M, Narkauskaité L, Saliba A, Sammut M, Voss M
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: European Journal of Public Health
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24189792

Social innovations can contribute to health and wellbeing. PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe) investigated the impacts at national level of innovation projects funded by the European Union Public Health Programme.
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Programmes and calls for public health research in European countries

Authors: Barnhoorn F, Conceição C, Grimaud O, Katreniakova Z, McCarthy M, Narkauskaité L, Saliba A, Sammut M
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: European Journal of Public Health
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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What influences national and foreign physicians’ geographic distribution? An analysis of medical doctors’ residence location in Portugal.

Authors: Conceição C, de Sousa B, Ferrinho P, Russo G
Journal: Human Resources for Health
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=What+influences+national+and+foreign+physicians%27+geographic+distribution%3F+An+analysis+of+medical+doctors%27+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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Trends of cross-border mobility of physicians and nurses between Portugal and Spain

Authors: Conceição C, Dussault G, Leone C
Journal: Human Resources for Health
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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Competitive funding and structures for public health research in European countries

Impact of innovations in national public health markets in Europe

Programmes and calls for public health research in European countries

What influences national and foreign physicians’ geographic distribution? An analysis of medical doctors’ residence location in Portugal.

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

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