Developing Health Service Staff

Protection of Health Service staff.

What makes staff consider leaving the health service in Malawi?

BACKGROUND Malawi faces a severe shortage of health workers, a factor that has contributed greatly to high maternal mortality in the country. Most clinical care is performed by mid-level providers (MLPs). While utilization of these cadres in providing health care is a solution to the current shortages, demotivating factors within the Malawian health system are pushing them into private, non-gov...

A Model of Basic Dental Care Service in a Developing Health Care System

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the components of oral health care system in some developed countries and propose a model for Iran   Methods: The present study was a qualitative, cross-sectional, and comparative research that took place in 2012. Oral health care systems in some developed countries were reviewed to propose a framework for Iran. This framework was discussed and revie...

Staff support for the Health Service Executive (HSE) global health programme.

The Global Health programme (GHP) within the Health Service Executive (HSE) aims to improve health in developing countries by creating partnerships between Irish and developing world healthcare institutions. To ascertain the level of interest among HSE staff for the GHP a web-based survey was conducted. 1,028 responses were received. Medical professionals, 202 (27.7%) composed the largest categ...

health‐caRe staff PeRsPectiVe

intRoduction Neither dramatic footage nor horrifying statistics from the most recent Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak come close to reflecting the true impact of the EBOV disease (EVD) on affected countries, communities, patients, health-care workers, or their friends and families.[1,2] With focus squarely on containing the outbreak and dealing with the immensity of the task at hand, many fail to no...