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Challenges to implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel: the case of Sudan

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2016
BackgroundThe WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (hereafter the WHO Code) was adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2010 as a voluntary instrument to address challenges of health worker migration worldwide.
Ayat Abuagla, E. Badr
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Challenges for health care development in Croatia [Izazovi razvoja zdravstvenog sustava Republike Hrvatske] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The main aim of the research done in this paper was to establish key challenges and perspectives for health care development in the Republic of Croatia in the next two decades.
Bilas, Vlatka   +2 more
core  

Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Background: The view that most military personnel evacuated from war zones are suffering from combat stress reactions, or are otherwise traumatised by the horrors of war, has an impact on all aspects of military psychiatry.
Andrew G. McKechanie   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Surface dose analysis and dosimetric comparison of Halcyon versus Truebeam in breast cancer radiotherapy: An OSL dosimetry study

open access: yesJournal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Breast cancer is a neoplastic disease with high prevalence among women. Radiotherapy is one of the principal treatment modalities for this disease, but it poses significant challenges. This study aimed to compare and evaluate the technical and dosimetric performance of conventional C‐arm linac systems and a new design, Halcyon, in the ...
Mustafa Çağlar   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health personnel retention strategies in a peri-urban community: an exploratory study on Epworth, Zimbabwe

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2016
BackgroundThe need to retain health personnel is a policy challenge undermining health system reform of the 21st century. The need to resolve this global health workforce crisis resulted in the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in 2008 ...
Bernard Hope Taderera   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Occupational Exposures and Environmental Health Hazards of Military Personnel

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Background: Military personnel are frequently exposed to environmental pollutants that can cause a variety of diseases. Methods: This review analyzed publications regarding epidemiological and biomonitoring studies on occupationally-exposed military ...
M. Geretto   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Home‐Based Tele‐tDCS in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Feasibility, Safety, and Preliminary Efficacy

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with limited treatment options. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) shows promise as a neuromodulatory intervention in various neurological disorders, but its application in ALS, particularly in a remote, home‐based format, remains underexplored.
Sangeetha Madhavan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Severe flooding and cause-specific hospitalization in the United States [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Flooding is one of the most disruptive and costliest climate-related disasters and presents an escalating threat to population health due to climate change and urbanization patterns. Previous studies have investigated the consequences of flood exposures on only a handful of health outcomes and focus on a single flood event or affected region.
arxiv  

The Health Officer and His Personnel

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1945
IT has been my good fortune to number among my friends many health officers; particularly in the West. I am privileged to visit them on their own grounds and discuss the problems of public health which interest them most. We speak the same language and often hold the same viewpoints.
openaire   +4 more sources

“There are more things in heaven and earth!” How knowledge about traditional healing affects clinical practice: interviews with conventional health personnel

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2017
People with Sami and Norwegian background are frequent users of traditional folk medicine (TM). Traditional healing, such as religious prayers of healing (reading) and the laying on of hands, are examples of commonly used modalities.
Anette Langås-Larsen   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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