Browsing by Subject "Public Health & Primary Care"
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Health economics made easy: guiding the initiated and uninitiated.
(2008)For many years it was a challenge in teaching health economics to find a textbook that exactly fits the needs of a class, not least because the needs of student are so diverse. To an extent, this remains the case despite ... -
Identifying strategies to maximise recruitment and retention of practices and patients in a multicentre randomised controlled trial of an intervention to optimise secondary prevention for coronary heart disease in primary care.
(BioMed Central, 2009)BACKGROUND: Recruitment and retention of patients and healthcare providers in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is important in order to determine the effectiveness of interventions. However, failure to achieve recruitment ... -
The impact of banning smoking in workplaces. What are the early effects?
(2008)Smoke-free workplace legislation reduces the exposure to second-hand smoke of both the general public and the workforce without evidence of increased exposure of children in the home. The reductions in exposure are linked ... -
Market competition in European hospital care
(World Health Organisation, 2009)This chapter investigates some elements of market competition in European hospital care. We use the term market competition as a broad concept, covering a diverse and hard to demarcate range of changes or reforms, such ... -
Measuring and managing the work environment of the mid-level provider - the neglected human resource.
(2009)Background Much has been written in the past decade about the health workforce crisis that is crippling health service delivery in many middle-income and low-income countries. Countries having lost most of their highly ... -
Prevalence of problem alcohol use among patients attending primary care for methadone treatment.
(2009)BACKGROUND: Problem alcohol use is associated with adverse health outcomes among current or former heroin users and primary care is providing methadone treatment for increasing numbers of this population. This study aimed ... -
Primary medical care in Irish prisons
(BioMed Central, 2010)BACKGROUND: An industrial dispute between prison doctors and the Irish Prison Service (IPS) took place in 2004. Part of the resolution of that dispute was that an independent review of prison medical and support services ... -
Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management.
(2009)Background Shortage of human resources is a major problem facing Malawi, where more than 50% of the population lives in rural areas. Most of the district health services are provided by clinical health officers specially ...