Introduction: Health systems are under pressure from demographic and epidemiological changes, imposing challenges on workforce management, particularly for Healthcare Assistants (HCAs). In Portugal, HCAs work within healthcare teams, but there is a gap in knowledge about their profile, activity, and qualifications. The expansion of private and socially-oriented healthcare institutions reinforces the need to bro...
A República da Guiné-Bissau (RGB), um Estado frágil marcado por um contexto de instabilidade política e institucional, tem feito desde 1993 o exercício do Planeamento Estratégico para o Sector da Saúde (PES). Os documentos estratégicos sectoriais – Planos Nacionais de Desenvolvimento Sanitário (PNDS) – demonstram capacidade de resistir às adversidades governativas. Esta revisão longitudinal das políticas preten...
Introduction: The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (RGB) presents a scenario of scarcity and poor distribution of human resources for health (HRH). Medical education emerged at RGB in the 1980s, highlighting the Faculty of Medicine Raúl Díaz-Argüelles García (FM), under the tutelage of Cuban cooperation. The present work aimed to contribute to a proposal for a training offer more suited to the needs of this S...
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Background: The context where medical students are trained and their expectations towards professional life are paramount to plan the distribution, retention and motivation of the health workforce. In this study we compare the evolution of professional expectations of medical students of Guinea-Bissau, between 2007 and 2016. Material and Methods: We compare the results of two descriptive, cross-sectional studie...
Healthcare assistants have a supporting role of more qualified professionals. They are a considerable and unknow part of the Portuguese health workforce. The professional profile and the Technical Healthcare Assistant course, published in 2010, brought changes that have not yet been studied. part of an investigation that analyses these policies, this study aims to contribute to the understanding of the national...
In the context of the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030, WHO was given the responsibility to develop “an internationally recognized, postgraduate professional program on HRH policy and planning”. The objective of this survey was to identify and analyze existing human resources development (HRD) courses globally with a view to inform WHO’s future efforts in this domain. This was a des...
Objective: to systematize the meta-evaluation methodology in its conceptual and operational aspects to facilitate its use in health management practices. Methods: this is an essay on meta-evaluation. The theoretical bases were searched in books and articles, published between 1991 and 2018, that approached the conceptual, methodological and operational aspects of the meta-evaluation. Results: the meta-evaluatio...
The adoption of plans in all sectors of society has gained in importance for its ability to influence decision making. Strategic planning (SP), while complex procedure involved and mobilizing all sectors of society, contributes to gains in knowledge and the dissemination thereof, legitimizing strategic visions and clarifying priority areas of intervention. The SP in the health sector (SPH) emerged in the 1990s,...
In the scenario of international cooperation, in a perspective of support to the development of health in Portuguese speaking African Countries (PALOP), Portugal (PT) has existing cooperation agreements signed between 1977 and 1992, allowing the evacuation of patients (EVD) from PALOPs to Portuguese public hospitals in search of solutions to health problems not resoluble in their countries of origin. The proced...