Sökning: "health workforce"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden health workforce.
1. Health workforce development post-1990s health sector reforms : the case of medical doctors in Tanzania
Sammanfattning : Background: Health systems in many low- and middle-income countries suffer from critical shortages and inequitable geographical distribution of the health workforce. Since the 1940s, many low- and middle-income countries have passed through different regimes of health sector reforms; the most recent one was in the 1990s. LÄS MER
2. Exploring firefighters' health and wellbeing
Sammanfattning : Background: This thesis supports the assumption that firefighters’ health and mental well-being is important, in order to cope with the stress that the profession implies. As health is an essential part of everyday life, it seems substantially to understand how an almost exclusively male workforce of firefighters construct their discourse in relation to health and well-being. LÄS MER
3. Does health insurance contribute to improving responsiveness of the health system? : the case of elderly in rural Tanzania
Sammanfattning : Background: Financing healthcare in Tanzania has for years depended on out-of-pocket payments. This mechanism has been criticized as being inefficient, contributing to inequity and high cost as well as denying access to healthcare to those most in need, including the elderly in rural areas. LÄS MER
4. Measuring global surgery, obstetrics and anaesthesia from health systems to patients
Sammanfattning : BackgroundWorldwide, an estimated 5 billion people lack access to safe, affordable surgical care when needed. This leads to millions of avertable deaths and unnecessary morbidity each year. To change this situation, urgent action is needed at many levels, but indicators and data have been lacking to guide improvement. LÄS MER
5. Vid utmattningens gräns. Utmattningssyndrom som existentiellt tillstånd : Vårdtagares och vårdgivares erfarenheter av utmattningssyndrom och rehabilitering med en existentiell ansats i svensk vårdkontext
Sammanfattning : Background and objectives: Stress-related illness is a growing public health problem in Sweden and it is the most common reason for sick leave today. Stress-related illness causes suffering on a number of levels and affects the patient’s health and life in the long term. LÄS MER