Physicians resources in lithuania: Change comes slowly

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-213

  Lovkyte, Liudvika ^a   Reamy, Jack ^b   Padaiga, Zilvinas ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltic States; Health care reform; Health planning; Health resources; Lithuania; Physicians

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC STATES; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LITHUANIA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIGRATION; PHYSICIAN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

DATABASES; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; PHYSICIANS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 0037960333     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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