Profession/specialty imbalances: Under this category, we consider imbalance in the various health professions, such as doctors or nurses, as well as shortages within a profession, e.g. shortage of one type of specialists. Geographical imbalances: These are disparities between urban and rural regions...
Plan-Do-Study/Check-Act cycle was the commonly employed model to understand the CQI implementation process. The main reported purposes of using CQI, as its positive impact, are to improve the structure of the health system (e.g., leadership...
The roles of health care workers vary from country to country, and the professions also have different national histories and cultures. It can be difficult to categorize data when professional boundaries are not well defined. The use of internationally standardized classifications – such as the ...
—“Welcome to the Wild, Wild North: Conscientious Objection Policies Governing Canada’s Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Dental Professions,” by Jacquelyn Shaw and Jocelyn Downie (pp 33–46). [emergency contraception and conscientious objection, Italy] “Whose Self-Determination? Barriers to Access...
Saudi Arabia (SAU), Zimbabwe (ZWE), and Cote d’Ivoire (CIV) share the highest scores for the regulation of the private market.Footnote 12 At the same time, these three countries have very different values for State Regulatory Infrastructure. While this indicates that there is not a direct...
These are examined as parts of the health or medical systems from an historical perspective that enables the reader to link the present to the past and vice-versa. Assessing the changes that have occurred since independence in most of the African continent, which it achieved during the 1960s–...