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Organizational culture in the primary healthcare setting of Cyprus
(BMC Health Services Research, 2013)
Background: The concept of organizational culture is important in understanding the behaviour of individuals in
organizations as they manage external demands and internal social changes. Cyprus healthcare system is ...
Conflict management in public hospitals: the Cyprus case
(International Council of Nurses, 2001-06)
Background: Conflict among health-care personnel has been identified as an issue within health-care settings around the world.
Aim: To investigate the existence and management of conflict among health-care personnel in ...
Ethnic identity, person perception and racism: a decade of changes in Cyprus
(Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 2013)
Cyprus has been through many significant changes in the decade of 2000-2010. The purpose of this study was to assess differences in levels of ethnic identity, person perception and racism by comparing archived data of 2000, ...
Cypriot secondary school teachers’ professional life phases: a research-informed view of career long motivation
(2015)
This paper presents the professional life phases of Cypriot secondary school teachers and discusses the influences underlying their motivation. A comparison is established between teachers within each phase by extracting ...
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of immigrants from third countries in Cyprus, on HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health. The implication of nursing ethics to healthcare
(Technological Educational Institute of Athens, 2013)
Background: Cultural, social policy and legal factors contribute to HIV vulnerability amongst ethnic minorities. Insufficient knowledge on HIV transmission and prevention contributes in engaging in risky sexual behaviours ...
Evaluation of Home Care Nursing for Elderly People in Cyprus
(2015)
Background: Europe has the highest proportion of people aged 65 and older (16%). From 2000 until 2050, the world’s
population aged 65 and over will be more than triple from 600 million to 2 billion. Elderly prefer to be ...
Home Nursing in Cyprus
(Springer, 2016)
Aging demographic changes suggest an increased demand on health and social services and elderly people prefer to be in their own homes and communities. The majority of elderly people prefer to stay at home for any form of ...
The Strategic Importance of Cyprus and the Prospect of Union with Greece, 1919–1931: The Greek Perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-05)
The outbreak of the First World War brought about an important change in the status of Cyprus which was officially annexed by Great Britain. In the years that followed, successive Greek governments preferred not o pose ...
Medical Errors in Cyprus: The 2005 Eurobarometer Survey
(Professor Despina Sapountzi-Krepia, 2012)
Background: Medical errors have been highlighted in recent years by different agencies, scientific bodies and research teams alike. We sought to explore the issue of medical errors in Cyprus using data from the Eurobarometer ...
Improving Mental Health Services Through the Measurement of Attitudes and Knowledge of Mental Health Professionals and the General Population in Cyprus
(Taylor and Francis, 2013)
Despite the magnitude of mental health problems worldwide, many cases of deinstitutionalization have failed to achieve their targets for a number of reasons including lack of appropriate community psychiatric services and ...