Professional paper
Occupational health service in Croatia today. organization and manpower
Vlasta Dečković-Vukres
; Hrvatski zavod za javno zdravstvo, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
According to the Health Manpower Register, run by the Croatian National Institute of Public Health, in October 1995 the country's health institutional work force included 381 occupational hearth specialists. 34 of whom were in private practice. Of the total, only 188 (49%) worked in occupational health, 163 (43%) in general medicine and 30 (8%) in other services. In all, the Occupational Health Service (without private practice) employed 649 persons, Of these, 230 were physicians (200 specialists, 8 medical specialty trainees and 22 general practitioners), 136 university-trained health workers and 200 health workers with secondary school education. The Occupational Health Service operated through 127 units in 65 Croatian communities and towns, seventy-eight units provided specialized medical care only, 20 comprehensive medical care, and 29 curative services only. Such organizational mix is a consequence of the transitional period since the passage and coming into force in August 1993 of the Health Care Act which has defined occupational health as a purely preventivs activity at the primary health care level. Most occupational health specialists who work for the General Medical Service have jobs in major towns like Zagreb, Rijeka and Sisak.
Keywords
health workers; specialized medical care
Hrčak ID:
145226
URI
Publication date:
16.4.1996.
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