A United Nations Global Health Panel for Global Health Governance: A commentary on Mackey
- Authors: Dussault G
- Publication Year: 2013
- Journal: Social Science & Medicine
- Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23131841
Scaling-up the medical work- force in Timor-Leste: Challenges of a great leap forward
- Authors: Buchan J, Cabral J, Dussault G, Ferrinho P
- Publication Year: 2013
- Journal: Social Science & Medicine
- Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23932856
The health services system of Timor-Leste (T-L) will, by 2015, add 800 physicians, most of them trained in Cuba, to the 233 employed by the national health system in 2010-2011. The need for more physicians is not in discussion: poor health indicators, low coverage and utilization of services, and poor quality of services are well documented in T-L.
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How do dual practitioners divide their time? The cases of three african capital cities
- Authors: McPake B, Russo G, Tseng FM
- Publication Year: 2014
- Journal: Social Science & Medicine
- Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614006935
Health professionals dual practice has received increasing attention, particularly in the context of the universal health coverage movement. This paper explores the determinants of doctors’ choices to become a dual practitioner and of dual practitioners’ choices to allocate time to the private sector in the capital cities of Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.
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