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Meta-evaluation of health management: challenges for “new public health”.

O texto de Tanaka me seduziu pelo seu eco a algumas reflexões que tenho feito ao longo dos últimos cinco anos, iniciadas na 1ª oficina para construção do GT da Abrasco (“Da avaliação em saúde à saúde da avaliação”), e agora revisitadas ao escrever um capítulo de livro sobre “a nova saúde pública”, focalizando a avaliação de desempenho como contribuição ao Plano Nacional de Saúde em Portugal.
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Purchasing power of civil servant health workers in Mozambique.

BACKGROUND:
Health workers’ purchasing power is an important consideration in the development of strategies for health workforce development. This work explores the purchasing power variation of Mozambican public sector health workers, between 1999 and 2007. In general, the calculated purchasing power increased for most careers under study, and the highest percentage increase was observed for the lowest remuneration careers, contributing in this way for a relative reduction in the difference between the higher and the lower salaries.
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Do nurses have a different physical health profile? A systematic review of experimental and observational studies on nurses’ physical health.

AIM:
To review the evidence on nurses’ health systematically.
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Realities and professional expectations of medical students attending Guinea Bissau’s medical school in 2007 school year.

In Guinea Bissau, the majority of university level professionals are still being trained abroad and most of them do not return to their country. This was a major incentive for creating Guinea Bissau’s Medical School.
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The training and professional expectations of medical students in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.

BACKGROUND:
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the professional expectations of medical students during the 2007-2008 academic year at the public medical schools of Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, and to identify their social and geographical origins, their professional expectations and difficulties relating to their education and professional future.
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The human resource for health situation in Zambia: deficit and maldistribution.

INTRODUCTION:
Current health policy directions in Zambia are formulated in the National Health Strategic Plan. The Plan focuses on national health priorities, which include the human resources (HR) crisis.
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Negotiating Markets for Health: An Exploration of Physicians’ Engagement in Dual Practice in Three African Capital Cities

Scarce evidence exists on the features, determinants and implications of physicians’ dual practice, especially in resource-poor settings. This study considered dual practice patterns in three African cities and the respective markets for physician services, with the objective of understanding the influence of local determinants on the practice.
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Why do some physicians in portuguese-speaking african countries work exclusively for the private sector? Findings from a mixed-methods study

Despite the growing interest in the private health sector in low- and middle-income countries, little is known about physicians working outside the public sector. The present work adopts a mixed-methods approach to explore characteristics, working patterns, choices, and motivations of the physicians working exclusively for the private sector in the capital cities of Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, and Mozambique.
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