BACKGROUND Unemployment among health professionals in Serbia has risen in the recent past and continues to increase. This highlights the need to understand how to change policies to meet real and projected needs. This study identified variables that were significantly related to physician and nurse employment rates in the public healthcare sector in Serbia from 1961 to 2008 and used these to de...

Utilizing the research method of content analysis, Ihis study analyzes newspaper a rticles and photographs on the subje(:\ of nurse-midwifery thaI appeared in 1978. Rndings point to the 'leed lor a much greater effort by nurse-midwives to communicate to the public who they aTe and what they do. Only through sustained grassroots efforts to secure press coverage will nurse-midwifery emerge on the...

In Norway, all children are entitled to receive regular health checks. Child centres for 0–5 years old (CHC) provide these check-ups and one of many services that Norwegian municipalities have offer. The aim this study was examine parents’ satisfaction with CHCs, identify predictors the overall evaluation service. sample comprised 1654 parents who visited a CHC their children. A hierarchical mu...

There is a shortage of human resources in Africa but also poor management by governments with poor working environments and career paths in primary care1 and maldistribution of healthcare professionals. Post-apartheid South Africa saw black nurses moved out of hospitals dominated by white doctors to ‘nurse-driven’ district health services, citing ‘doctor shortage’. The government has struggled ...