School health in Europe: a review of workforce expenditure across five countries.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Most European countries have implemented a form of school health services (SHS) to provide young children and adolescents with various types of healthcare. No estimations on SHS expenditure for European countries have been published until now. We estimated SHS workforce expenditure in Europe, expected to serve as the main driver of school healthcare costs. METHODS:Using two networks of experts on healthcare provision for children we contacted various country representatives to provide data on the number of professionals working in SHS and salaries. These data were used, together with publicly available data, to estimate annual SHS workforce expenditure on the national level. RESULTS:We received sufficient data for five European countries, and estimated the SHS workforce expendit

SUBMITTER: van der Pol S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7068946 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature