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Open AccessImpacts of industrial actions, protests, strikes and lockouts by health and care workers during COVID-19 and other pandemic contexts: a systematic review
Public health emergencies of international concern (PHEICs) as the COVID-19 pandemic and others that have occurred since the early 2000s put enormous pressure on health and care systems. This is being a contex...
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Open AccessImpacts for health and care workers of Covid-19 and other public health emergencies of international concern: living systematic review, meta-analysis and policy recommendations
Health and care workers (HCW) faced the double burden of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: as members of a society affected by a public health emergency and as HWC who experienced fear of becoming infected and of infec...
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Open AccessSocial protection as a right of people affected by tuberculosis: a sco** review and conceptual framework
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease strongly influenced by social determinants closely associated with cycles of poverty and social exclusion. Within this context, providing social protection for people affe...
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Open AccessEpidemiology of TB in prisoners: a metanalysis of the prevalence of active and latent TB
Tuberculosis (TB) in prisons usually occurs at higher rates than in the general population, especially in develo** countries. TB has been reported as the most common cause of death among prisoners. Studies h...
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Open AccessThe burden of alcohol, tobacco and others drugs among incarcerated population diagnosed with tuberculosis: time trends and spatial determinants in Southern Brazil
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a public health problem worldwide. It is estimated that 90% of the patients diagnosed with TB live in vulnerable environments...
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Open AccessLeadership in HRH: remembering the future?
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Open AccessTuberculosis forecasting and temporal trends by sex and age in a high endemic city in northeastern Brazil: where were we before the Covid-19 pandemic?
The aim of this study was to describe the temporal trend of tuberculosis cases according to sex and age group and evidence the level of disease before the Covid-19 pandemic in a TB high endemic city.
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Open AccessCauses of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis from the perspectives of health providers: challenges and strategies for adherence to treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a serious phenomenon on a global scale that can worsen with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to understand the perceptions of health professionals about MDR-T...
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Open AccessRegulation of non-conventional therapies in Portugal: lessons learnt for strengthening human resources in health
The integration of non-conventional therapies (NCT) into health policies and health services delivery is a worldwide trend and might have a role in achieving Universal Health Coverage. WHO has encouraged count...
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Open AccessMedical faculty profile is an important determinant of student profile and future practice expectations of medical students in Angola
Angola is among one of the most deprived countries in the world in terms of medical professionals. In the past decade, the Angolan Government has invested in the expansion of faculties of medicine in the count...
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Open AccessThe relevance of educational attainments of parents of medical students for health workforce planning: data from Guiné-Bissau
In this article, we analyze data collected in the context of health workforce planning (HWFP) for Guiné-Bissau as part of the development of the third National Health Strategy, to study the relationship betwee...
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Open AccessUsing hospital auxiliary worker and 24-h TB services as potential tools to overcome in-hospital TB delays: a quasi-experimental study
In-hospital logistic management barriers (LMB) are considered to be important risk factors for delays in TB diagnosis and treatment initiation (TB-dt), which perpetuates TB transmission and the development of ...
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Open AccessTime delay and associated mortality from negative smear to positive Xpert MTB/RIF test among TB/HIV patients: a retrospective study
The GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay (Xpert®) is known to be a feasible, effective and a hopeful tool for rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment. However, little is known about the time delay caused by initial...
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Open AccessUnderstanding nurses’ dual practice: a sco** review of what we know and what we still need to ask on nurses holding multiple jobs
Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world’s largest health...
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Health Policies, Patterns and Barriers to Migrants’ Access to Primary Health Care
Primary health care (PHC) should be a preferential way to access healthcare. Access to PHC is fundamental in terms of preventive medicine and an important health equity indicator. In Portugal, PHC has been con...
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Open AccessHuman resources for health (and rehabilitation): Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges for the century
People with disabilities face challenges accessing basic rehabilitation health care. In 2006, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) outlined the global necessity to me...
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Open AccessIntegrated health service delivery networks and tuberculosis avoidable hospitalizations: is there a relation between them in Brazil?
The early identification of the Breathing Symptoms within the scope of Primary Health Care is recommended, and is also one of the strategies of national sanitary authorities for reaching the elimination of tub...
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Open AccessThe rise of medical training in Portuguese speaking African countries
Medical training has shown to be strategic for strengthening health systems, especially in those countries identified to have critical shortage of human resources for health. In the past few years, several stu...
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Open AccessThe training and professional expectations of medical students in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the professional expectations of medical students during the 2007-2008 academic year at the public medical schools of Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, ...
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Open AccessProfile and professional expectations of medical students in Mozambique: a longitudinal study
This paper compares the socioeconomic profile of medical students registered at the Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (FM-UEM), Maputo, for the years 1998/99 and 2007/08.
