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The global mental health workforce is facing a severe crisis marked by burnout, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and workforce shortages, with disproportionate effects on marginalized communities. This paper introduces the Integrated Workforce T...

Global migration and labour market pressures have increased transnational mobility in social work, as practitioners move across borders to meet workforce demand. This paper examines how professional regulation interacts with workforce shortages and t...

This study examines educator staffing instability in New Mexico by analyzing certified staffing rosters from the New Mexico Public Education Department (2014–2019) alongside a statewide Teacher Working Conditions Survey (N = 4481). The goal was...

This study examines the experiences of pre-service teachers (PSTs) participating in Australian state-and-territory-specific programs that address teacher workforce shortages in Australia. Using a multi-methods approach, data from surveys and intervie...

The Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has highlighted the chronic shortages of labour to provide care for those aged 65 and over in rural and remote areas of Australia. This descriptive cross-sectional study compares the a...

The capacity of schools to address behavioral health concerns presents an emerging challenge, exacerbated by major shortages in the workforce. Schools across the U.S. are struggling to hire licensed behavioral health professionals, with additional ba...

Nursing shortages require hospitals to balance staffing adequacy with flexibility in responding to vacancies, fluctuating demand, and unexpected service pressures. This focused narrative review examines temporary nurse staffing in acute hospitals, wi...

Indonesia, one of the Asia Pacific low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), has suffered from a chronic medical workforce shortage. However, there are limited published studies describing the approaches implemented by the Indonesian government regard...

Healthcare workforce (HWF) shortages are the biggest challenges today in healthcare systems. Therefore, it is crucial to forecast the future needs of HWFs in order to plan accordingly. The purpose of this study was to identify, map, and synthesize th...

Globally, education systems are faced with dual workforce crises: a shortage of teachers and a lack of affordable housing. Attracting and retaining teachers through improved renumeration, working conditions, and quality preparation have been central....

Telemedicine’s underutilization ended when the COVID-19 pandemic caused people to isolate and kept them from seeking healthcare services at their local hospitals and clinics. With the aid of the CARES Act of March 2020, healthcare providers qui...

Complex factors influence physicians’ decisions to remain in rural and remote (RR) practice. Indonesia, particularly, has various degrees of poor governance contributing to physicians’ decisions to stay or leave RR practice. However, ther...

Teacher shortages and workforce trends in education are critical policy and research concerns. This study presents a robust data collection pipeline that systematically web-scrapes job postings for K-12 and higher education job postings across multip...

A shortage of qualified teachers has been a long-term problem in many school districts and education systems internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the current human resource gap in teaching significantly impacted the quality of teaching serv...

Healthcare systems are facing a shortage of nurses. This article identifies some of the major causes of this and the issues that need to be solved. We take a perspective derived from queuing theory: the patient–nurse relationship is characteriz...

Medical brain drain has been a policy concern in recent years when many countries are struggling with health workforce shortages. Some suggest that wealthy countries only exacerbate this problem by recruiting internationally trained health profession...

Operational labor shortages have become a pressing challenge for hospitality organizations, especially in highly seasonal tourism destinations such as Greece, where service experiences are deeply tied to cultural identity and authentic hospitality. W...

Central European, especially the Hungarian and Polish experiences, reveal a profound paradox, anti-immigration policy narratives, yet immigration laws and policies support reliance on migrant workforce (non-EU migrants). The question arises: why is t...

Purpose: Mental health care is limited worldwide, especially for children and adolescents. Moreover, there are barriers to using mental health services for children and adolescents, including a shortage of standardized training programs and the subse...

There is a global veterinary workforce shortage, particularly in rural and regional areas. In response to this shortage in New South Wales (NSW), the State Parliament launched a Parliamentary Inquiry in 2023. The Inquiry received 205 publicly availab...

Background/Objectives: Primary healthcare in Hungary faces acute physician shortages; in the Heves district, eight general practices are permanently vacant, leaving 11,191 residents without continuous care. In September 2025, the Hungarian Charity Se...

Public health, social work, and psychological counselling professions in South Korea are facing challenges of human resource shortage and shortage of professionals who can provide multilingual services. The purpose of this study was to explore and un...

Producing enough doctors working in general practice or rural locations, or both, remains a key global policy focus. However, there is a lack of evidence about doctors’ emerging commitment to these decisions. This study aimed to explore changes in th...

Construction, one of the largest global economic sectors, has been severely challenged by the economic uncertainties brought on by COVID-19. Since 2020, pandemic-related disruptions and remedial measures have made its historically low performance eve...

Financial consideration, internal and external influence, personal goal, and educational achievement always influence the decision-making process and behavior of individuals. Using nursing students as the population, the researcher employed the Socia...

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by a highly contagious novel virus called SARS-CoV-2, has led to significant global morbidity and mortality, with disproportionate burden among frontline workers. While the current empirical body of evidence h...

This autoethnographic study explores the lived experiences of an advanced-degree holder and educator with expertise in leadership and education policy who worked as a substitute teacher in the Clark County School District. Despite my qualifications,...

The construction industry is critically reliant on efficient supply chains to ensure better project management, success, and profitability. This research examined the critical and ongoing challenges within the construction supply chain, with a partic...

Background/Objectives: Mentorship is widely recognized as essential to professional identity formation, clinical competency, and faculty pipeline development in dental education. Despite this consensus, the conditions of modern academic dentistry&mda...

Background and Objectives: The 2024 Korean medical–political conflict caused the mass resignation of trainee physicians, raising concerns about the quality of care for time-critical emergencies. This study aimed to assess the impact of workforc...

The rapid digitalization of transportation systems has expanded the cyberattack surface of critical infrastructure while exposing significant shortages in transportation-specific cybersecurity workforce capacity. Existing workforce studies rarely int...

This study delves into the challenges of pharmaceutical forecasting within the Ethiopian public pharmaceutical supply chain, which is vital for ensuring medicine availability and optimizing healthcare delivery. t It aims to identify and analyze key h...

Sustainable engineering is very important for logistics systems. Nowadays, sustainable warehouse management is a key factor in market success. Workforce fluctuation and inverting the number of customers’ demands make a lot of problems in distribution...

Persistent teacher shortages in rural schools continue to challenge the provision of equitable, high-quality education. While research has documented the difficulties of recruiting and retaining teachers in these contexts, less attention has been giv...

Professionally trained, motivated, and responsible forestry workers are a fundamental prerequisite of successful forest production and an integral part of the modern, generally accepted paradigm of sustainable forest management. However, the forestry...

Labor markets worldwide are increasingly strained by skill shortages, mismatches, and migration pressures, disrupting workforce stability and economic growth. This study conducts a comparative sectoral analysis in North Macedonia, Türkiye, Ethio...

Background: Ministerial Decree (D.M.) 77/2022 aims to reform Italy’s primary care system by establishing community health centres and integrating digital tools to address healthcare access disparities and workforce shortages. This review focuse...

The government is facing the country’s aging population and low birth rate have led to a severe shortage of its healthcare workforce in Taiwan after 2003. In order to explore the status of the country’s degree of long-term care shortage a...

The Korean government implemented a 52-h workweek policy for employees’ welfare. Consequently, companies face workforce availability reduction with the same number of employees. That is, labor-dependent companies suffer from workforce shortage. To ha...

The modern logistics industry is grappling with significant challenges brought about by rapid market transformations. These challenges encompass workforce shortages, the increasing complexity of diverse logistics systems, environmental concerns arisi...

Background: Despite being considered a country with a larger health workforce in Africa, the South African health workforce continues to experience shortages and a maldistribution of health workers across regions and sectors. Current projections sugg...

Background: Sustainable head and neck cancer (HNC) surgery is challenged by environmental impact, workforce shortages, inequitable access to advanced techniques, and policy constraints. Addressing these areas is critical for equitable, high-quality c...

Due to the influence of insufficient production capacity or shortage of production materials, production enterprises may produce products in advance or be backordered. In order to improve the adaptability of enterprises and reduce production costs, t...

The maritime industry is regarded as the fulcrum of the global economy. It contributes significantly in diverse ways to the movement of goods. To effectively deliver on its mandate, maritime transportation needs to be sustainable. In the absence of a...

This study creates and refines a risk–effectiveness–integrated dynamic simulation framework that brings together risk and effectiveness factors affecting qualified workforce allocation in multi-project contexts, specifically in the constr...

The workforce shortage is one of the significant problems in the construction industry. To overcome the challenges due to workforce shortage, various researchers have proposed wearable sensor-based systems in the area of construction safety and healt...

Artificial intelligence, the simulation of human intelligence by computers and machines, has found its way into healthcare, helping surgeons, doctors, radiologists, and many more. However, over 80% of healthcare professionals consists of people worki...

Chronic health workforce shortages significantly contribute to unmet health care needs in rural and remote communities. Of particular and growing concern are shortages of allied health professionals (AHPs). This study explored the contextual factors...

Migrant construction workers make up a significant portion of the workforce in many countries and play a crucial role in alleviating the skilled labor shortage. Although vocational education and training (VET) is essential for equipping these workers...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries faced a shortage as well as maldistribution of healthcare workers and a misalignment between healthcare needs and worker skills. In this scoping review, we have sought to identify the country-level respons...