Skill-mix in the health workforce
- Citizens and patients as co-producers of their health;
- Informal carers, looking after family member, friends and neighbours;
- Long-term care nurses providing services both in nursing homes but also at the elderly person’s home;
- Health professionals like doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and many others providing services in ambulatory and hospital settings;
- Public-health professionals with a specialization in public health, health policy-makers, epidemiologists, environmental health experts, health economists, health promotion specialists, employees at local health, agencies;
- Professionals with awareness of health and public health issues like police, architects, urban planners, teachers, welfare workers.
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