Quantity and distribution of continuing professional education opportunities among healthcare workers in Ghana

Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 270-279

  Aiga, Hirotsugu ^a   Kuroiwa, Chushi ^b  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OCCUPATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER MOBILITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GHANA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OCCUPATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846050889     PISSN: 00220124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/00220124-20061101-01     Document Type: Article

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