Healthcare assistants in EU Member States: An overview

Health Policy

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1109-1117

  Kroezen, Marieke ^a   Schäfer, Willemijn ^b,c   Sermeus, Walter ^d   Hansen, Johan ^e   Batenburg, Ronald ^e,f  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Europe; Health human resources; Health professionals; Health workforce; Healthcare assistants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVESTMENT; LEARNING; SKILL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; EUROPEAN UNION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH WORKFORCE; HUMANS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85050134309     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.07.004     Document Type: Article

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