General Practitioners' Mental Well-Being During Crises: Results of the PRICOV-19 Study Pilot in Serbia.

Background/aims: This study was conducted with the aim of assessing the mental well-being of general practitioners (GPs) amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. These findings are intended to provide valuable insights to primary care stakeholders about the potential need for support interventions.

Materials And Methods: In the context of the international cross-sectional survey on primary health care during the COVID-19 pandemic (PRICOV-19), our initial focus was on evaluating the appropriateness of employing the Mayo Clinic Well-Being Index (MWBI) for Serbian GPs.

The burden of COVID-19 in primary care of Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2021-2022.

Primary healthcare played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic by preventing, timely diagnosing, and referring severe cases to hospitals, as well as monitoring and counseling patients via telemedicine. We used a cross-sectional approach to analyze the severity outcomes of 174,540 COVID-19 cases treated in primary care in Almaty between 2021 and 2022, by age, sex, disease severity, and comorbidities. Outpatients with COVID-19 were mainly aged 30-39 (20.

Health workforce management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey of physicians in Serbia.

Background & Aim: The study describes the experiences and opinions of Serbian physicians regarding workforce management during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Materials & Methods: A total of 1553 licensed physicians (65% males; average age 44.0 years) responded to an online survey in September 2020.