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Brazilian public health community is mourning Izabel dos Santos
The Brazilian public heath is sad with the loss of Izabel dos Santos. A woman, black, nurse, she was a pioneer in the fight for equity in health and for the human resources for health development. She became a symbol of the effort to scale-up health middle-level personnel education programmes in Brazil and Latin America. Her ideas and leadership guided the development of new paradigms in the movement of innovative health training and health service integration, towards education and citizenship. With more than 50 years dedicated to nursing and its ideals she contributed to the development of policies and programs in the Brazilian health system and WHO.
Honoured in december 2002, with the book "Isabel dos Santos: the art and passion to learn by doing" , Izabel dos Santos was born in the north of Minas Gerais, on March 7, 1927 and died on December 1, 2010 Brasilia.
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Book on the physician assistant profession
A new book on the physician assistant profession is available. Roderick S. Hooker, PhD, PA, James F. Cawley, MPH, PA and David P. Asprey, PhD, PA. Physician Assistants: Policy and Practice, 3rd Ed published by F.A. Davis.
The book describes all aspects of the PA profession, now comprising more than 74 000 practitioners, and tackles a series of global health workforce policy issues including the utilization of PAs in primary care, rural practice, and in service to medically underserved communities.
It contains a chapter on the global spread of the PA concept and has a bibliography of over 950 citations. With forecasts of a coming shortage of physicians in the USA, PAs will be seen as increasingly valuable members of the health workforce of the future.
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