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Economic Crisis and Portuguese National Health Service Physicians: Findings from a Descriptive Study of Their Perceptions and Reactions from Health Care Units in the Greater Lisbon Area

  • Autores: Gonçalves L, Perelman J, Pita Barros P, Rego I, Russo G
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: Acta Médica Portuguesa
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28555551

INTRODUCTION: In Europe, scant scientific evidence exists on the impact of economic crisis on physicians. This study aims at understanding the adjustments made by public sector physicians to the changing conditions, and their perceptions on the market for medical services in the Lisbon metropolitan area. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A random sample of 484 physicians from […]
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Welfare states, the Great Recession and health: Trends in educational inequalities in self-reported health in 26 European countries

  • Autores: Leão T, Campos-Matos I, Bambra C, Russo G, Perelman J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: PLoS One
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5825059/%20

Background Although socioeconomic inequalities in health have long been observed in Europe, few studies have analysed their recent patterning. In this paper, we examined how educational inequalities in self-reported health have evolved in different European countries and welfare state regimes over the last decade, which was troubled by the Great Recession. Methods We used cross-sectional […]
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Understanding nurses’ dual practice: a scoping review of what we know and what we still need to ask on nurses holding multiple jobs

  • Autores: Russo G, Fronteira I, Jesus TS, Buchan J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: Human Resources for Health
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824568/

Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world’s largest health professional workforce and a critical resource for achieving Universal Health Coverage. Nonetheless, little is known about nurses’ engagement with dual practice. We conducted a […]
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Shifting determinants of health inequalities in unstable times: Portugal as a case study

  • Autores: Campos-Matos I, Russo G, Gonçalves L
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: European Journal of Public Health
  • Link: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article-abstract/28/1/4/3860927?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Background: We explore how health inequalities (HI) changed in Portugal over the last decade, considering it is one of the most unequal European countries and has gone through major economic changes. We describe how inequalities in limitations changed considering different socioeconomic determinants, in order to understand what drove changes in HI. Methods: We used cross-sectional […]
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Vertical interventions and system effects; have we learned anything from past experiences?

  • Autores: Oliveira C, Russo G
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: The Pan African Medical Journal
  • Link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/21/262/full/

The recent Ebola Virus Outbreak had a devastating effect on West Africa’s already feeble national health systems. We suggest that such an impact turned out to be catastrophic because it hit particularly hard human resources for health and the delivery of primary healthcare services, which are cross-sectional to any health system. National and international interventions […]
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