Health workforce forecast in the university hospital: evidence from Lithuania.

Background: The increasing shortage of staff in healthcare facilities worldwide calls for a human resource planning strategy in order to ensure safe, timely and patient-centred care. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis and supply and demand projections of nurses, midwives, and radiographers within the labor market of the largest university hospital in the Baltic States by 2030.

Methods: The staff supply was calculated on the intake and outflow of persons in the labour market annually for various factors.

Patients' health literacy and health behaviour assessment in primary health care: evidence from a cross-sectional survey.

Background: Health literacy is defined as a person's ability to find, understand, and use health-related information when making health-related decisions. Patients with lower health literacy more frequently face difficulties when they have health issues or need medical help. Such patients are less likely to visit health care facilities and receive less help, which subsequently leads to higher hospitalization and mortality rates.

[Opinion of patients with different health literacy levels about health information provided by nurses].

Unlabelled: The aim of this study is to evaluate and to compare patients' opinions about health information given to patients by nurses, considering the patients' health literacy level.

Materials And Methods: The study was performed in two regions of Lithuania. Eight hospitals were randomly selected for the study.

[The comparison of patients' and nurses' attitudes to health education and nurses' participation in this process].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study is to evaluate and to compare patients' and nurses' opinion about information given to patients by nurses.

Materials And Methods: The study was performed during April-May 2007 in two regions of Lithuania. Eight hospitals were randomly selected for the study.