Strategies to address physicians’ geographic distribution imbalances in Portugal
- Authors: Dal Poz MR, De Oliveira AP, Dussault G, Panisset UB
- Publication Year: 2015
- Journal: Tropical Medicine & International Health
Social inequality, health policies and the training of physicians, nurses and dentists in Brazil and in Portugal
- Authors: Craveiro I, De Oliveira AP, Dussault G, Hortale VA
- Publication Year: 2015
- Journal: Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
- Link: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232015001002985&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
This study analyzes the production of scientific knowledge on Health Inequalities (HI) and its use in policies of education of dentists, nurses and physicians in Brazil and Portugal. Documents published between January 2000 and December 2001, in Portuguese, French, English and Spanish, were identified by means of a combination of a manual and intentional electronic […]
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Challenges and strategies to improve the availability and geographic accessibility of physicians in Portugal
- Authors: Craveiro I, De Oliveira AP, Dussault G
- Publication Year: 2017
- Journal: Human Resources for Health
- Link: https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-017-0194-3
Shortages of physicians in remote, rural and other underserved areas and lack of general practitioners limit access to health services. The aims of this article are to identify the challenges faced by policy and decision-makers in Portugal to guarantee the availability and geographic accessibility to physicians in the National Health Service and to describe and […]
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