Le Rôle des femmes dans les soins de santé / Helena Pizurki ... [et al.]

Cet ouvrage analyse les nombreux facteurs qui conditionnent et reflètent le statut des femmes en tant que dispensatrices de soins. Exploitant les informations rassemblées lors de deux vastes consultations organisées sous l'égide de l'OMS, il examine la contribution des femmes aux soins de santé comme dans le cadre de la famille, des relations de voisinage et de la collectivité. Le but est de sensibiliser les planificateurs de la santé -- et les femmes elles-mêmes -- _ l'importance des femmes en tant que ressources pour la solution des problèmes de santé, tout en encourageant les efforts tendant à accroître, faciliter et récompenser le travail des femmes dans le développement sanitaire

Women as providers of health care / Helena Pizurki ... [et al.]

Explores the many factors governing the role and status of women as providers of health care. Drawing upon information gathered at two large WHO-sponsored consultations, the book considers the contribution of women within both the formal health care system and the informal setting of health care to families, neighbours, and communities. The objective is to make health planners and women themselves more conscious of the importance of women as resources for the solution of health problems while also promoting efforts to enhance, facilitate, and recompense the work of women in health development

Too many doctors!

The training of more health professionals, particularly doctors, than national health systems can absorb is the root cause of the present surplus. In the 1960s and 1970s, overproduction of health manpower in many countries was compensated by emigration, but now the labour markets for doctors and perhaps also for dentists and nurses have become satured in the major recipient countries. Economic crises are also aggravating the problem and, in all sectors, unemployment has risen and pressures for cost containment have been intensified