Economic crisis and challenges for the Greek healthcare system: The emergent role of nursing management

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 501-504

  Notara, Venetia ^a   Koupidis, Sotirios A ^b   Vaga, Elissavet ^a   Grammatikopoulos, Ilias A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Health care; Nursing management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; GREECE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; NURSE; NURSE ADMINISTRATOR; NURSE ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS, NURSING; GREECE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NURSE ADMINISTRATORS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSES;

EID: 77957139213     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01119.x     Document Type: Article

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