A5045536924- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Public Health in Brazil
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Education and Public Policy
- Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
- Social and Political Issues
- Migration, Health and Trauma
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2019-2025
University of Lisbon
2021-2025
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2021-2023
American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
2023
Hudson Institute
2023
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
2021
European Public Health Association
2021
Maastricht University
2021
Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2009-2020
University of Aveiro
2015
The healthcare workforce (HCWF) globally is facing high stress levels and deteriorating mental health due to workplace, labour market policy deficiencies that further exacerbate the existing crisis. However, comprehensive effective action missing.
This article presents the design of a seven-country study focusing on childhood vaccines, Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe (VAX-TRUST), developed during COVID-19 pandemic. The consists (a) situation analysis vaccine hesitancy (examination individual, socio-demographic and macro-level factors media coverage vaccines vaccination (b) participant observation in-depth interviews healthcare professionals vaccine-hesitant parents. These analyses were used to interventions aimed at increasing...
Hospital governance increasingly combines management and professional self-governance. This article maps the new emergent modes of control in a comparative perspective aims to better understand relationship between medicine as hybrid context-dependent. Theoretically, we critically review approaches into managerialism-professionalism relationship; methodologically, expand cross-country comparison towards meso-level organisations; empirically, focus is on processes actors range European...
ABSTRACT The practice of healthcare management is essential for the efficient operation health services, encompassing leadership, management, and direction within organisations. ‘Health management’ extends beyond by integrating principles public policy. As commonly practised but not cohesively recognised, European Health Management Association (EHMA) conducted this study to develop a cohesive definition management. Developed through qualitative methodology comprising focus group discussions...
Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is a state of indecision regarding vaccination, marked by doubts despite vaccine availability. 1 Its relationship with uptake has been widely debated, though the cause-effect remains unclear. Nevertheless, VH likely threatens control vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles and hepatitis B, imposing unnecessary burdens on health systems.Inappropriate access to information, inadequate offers, administration have identified primary contributors reluctance...
ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force in healthcare, offering significant potential to address workforce challenges and improve patient outcomes. This perspective article presents framework for responsible AI innovation, emphasising ethical governance, leadership commitment human‐centred AI. It provides guidance healthcare organisations position strategic enabler, augmenting the health care fostering sustainable, patient‐centred advancements healthcare.
The global migration of the health and care workforce (HCWF) has intensified, leading to complex policy scenarios diverse patterns. While traditional narrative individual workers (HCWs) migrating from low- middle-income countries high-income in search higher income, career prospects working conditions remains relevant, it now coexists with many other drivers, incentives, dynamics at level. evolving HCW have profound implications extending far beyond labour markets, influencing broader...
The concept of medicalization is hugely influential and empirical studies have demonstrated that has largely been achieved through the work medical professionals or scientists, but also increasingly efforts patients citizens seeking to legitimize their distress defining it as a 'medical' problem. In this article, I argue still fundamentally important sub-discipline sociology, there need revisit critique its conceptualization. draw on reflexive arguments within literature we, sociologists,...
This Comment piece summarises current challenges regarding routine vaccine uptake in the context of COVID-19 pandemic and provides recommendations on how to increase uptake. To implement these recommendations, article points evidence-based resources that can support health-care workers, policy makers communicators.
Abstract This article is dedicated to the WHO International Year of Health and Care Workers in 2021 recognition their commitment during COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims strengthen health workforce preparedness, protection ultimately resilience a We argue for system approach introduce tool rapid comparative assessment based on integrated multi-level governance. draw secondary sources expert information, including material from Denmark, Germany, Portugal Romania. results reveal similar...
This in-depth qualitative research examines the interplay between medicine and management. It focuses on reasons why doctors do not always implement administrative guidelines either uniformly or in their entirety, a context that is expanding managerial supervision. More specifically, we investigated extent to which managerialism shaping doctors’ perceptions of role as perceived position towards hospital We follow sociological perspective analyse structural, contextual individual dimensions,...
The need of improving the governance healthcare services has brought health professionals into management positions. However, both processes and outcomes this policy change highlight differences among European countries. This article provides in-depth evidence that neither quantitative data nor cross-country comparisons have been able to provide regarding influence hybrids in functioning hospital organizations impact on clinicians' autonomy exposure hybridization.The study was designed...