Service providers, the personnel and organisations that deliver care, are the foundation of any health care system. The personnel include not only doctors, but pharmacists, nurses, and an array of allied health professions, ...

This thesis set out to investigate whether ageing is a surrogate measure for proximity to death in the older population when estimating medication expenditures. The medication expenditures used were the ingredient cost of ...

A mixed methodological approach facilitated an in-depth examination of the service experiences, service preferences and financial costs associated with caring for children with life-limiting neurodevelopmental conditions ...

The majority of women in Sub Saharan Africa still give birth without a skilled birth attendant. Existing evidence suggests that voucher schemes have the potential to provide more targeted services to vulnerable groups such ...

Background. To address deficits in the delivery of acute medicineservices in Ireland, the National Acute Medicine Programme (NAMP) was established to optimise the management of acutely ill medical patients in ...

International doctor migration is traditionally considered a straightforward ‘drain’ on source countries and advantageous only for destination countries, who essentially obtain labour at low cost. Doctor migration places ...