More physicians in public health: less public health work?
Aim: The object was to assess changes in work priorities in local public health medicine in Norway over the period from 1994 to 1999. Methods: Two cross-sectional studies were undertaken of physicians working in local public health medicine in all Norwegian municipalities, using a postal questionnai...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 91 - 99 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2005
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106476596&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106476596 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14034948 BDD jtl: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health issn: 14034948 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2005 vid: 33 iid: 2 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 106476596 106476596 2005102690 10.1080/14034940410019181 NLM15823969 106476596 ppf: 91 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: More physicians in public health: less public health work? aug: au: Pettersen BJ Johnsen R affil: Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway; betty@poseidon.no sug: subj: Physician's Role Norway Public Health Administration Labor Supply Public Health Norway Workload Trends Adult Analysis of Covariance Chi Square Test Confidence Intervals Cross Sectional Studies Data Analysis Software Descriptive Statistics Female Job Characteristics Male Memory Middle Age Norway Physicians Preventive Health Care Questionnaires Resource Databases Self Report T-Tests Time Funding Source Human Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: Aim: The object was to assess changes in work priorities in local public health medicine in Norway over the period from 1994 to 1999. Methods: Two cross-sectional studies were undertaken of physicians working in local public health medicine in all Norwegian municipalities, using a postal questionnaire. Results: Half of the physicians working in public health in 1999 were recruited after 1994. Although the number of physicians working in public health increased from 505 in 1994 to 555 in 1999 (10%) an estimation of the total weekly hours worked decreased by 3.7% from 8,715 hours in 1994 to 8,386 hours in 1999. The vast majority of physicians worked in combined posts (87%), and they reduced their engagement in public health by 2.6 hours on average from 1994 to 1999. The reduction depended on remuneration model, speciality in community medicine, and municipality size. Conclusions: Local public health in Norway was under pressure in the 1990s. For public health physicians, preventive medicine lost out to clinical work. No promising signals of change in the professional or political framework or in incentives for public health work are seen. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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