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Although the conceptual underpinnings of needs-based health workforce planning have developed over the last two decades, lingering gaps in empirical models and lack of open access tools have partly constrained its uptake in health workforce planning...

Over the last decade, utilization of clinical genetics services has grown rapidly, putting increasing pressure on the workforce available to deliver genetic healthcare. To highlight the policy challenges facing Canadian health systems, a needs-based...

Healthcare workforce planning continues to face entrenched challenges arising from the complex adaptive nature of health systems and the ongoing misalignment between workforce capabilities and system purpose. This paper introduces a conceptual meta-s...

Over the last decade, there has been a renewed interest in oral health workforce planning. The purpose of this review is to examine oral health workforce planning models on supply, demand and needs, mainly in respect to their data sources, modelling...

The labour market for care professionals has experienced significant changes, resulting in critical shortages globally. Nurses represent the largest share of health workers worldwide; nonetheless, an estimated 13 million more nurses will be needed ov...

Background/Objectives: The growing number of older adults with complex healthcare needs increases demand for homecare services, while a shrinking workforce often lacks skills for advanced tasks. Digital health is seen as a promising tool to address t...

Background: A well-trained healthcare workforce is crucial for effective health service delivery and policy implementation. Despite the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department’s (P&SHD) efforts to improve physical infrastructure, critic...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 placed human health at the centre of disaster risk reduction, calling for the global community to enhance local and national health emergency and disaster risk management (Health EDRM). The H...

The future allied health workforce needs to be flexible to meet the needs of an ageing population with increasing chronic health care needs and geographically dispersed populations in many developed countries. Existing research shows the maldistribut...

Residents of rural and remote Australia have poorer health outcomes than their metropolitan counterparts. A major contributor to these health disparities is chronic and severe health workforce shortages outside of metropolitan areas—a global ph...

Australia has one of the lowest per capita numbers of ophthalmologists among OECD countries, and they predominantly practise in metropolitan centres of the country. Increasing the size and distribution of the ophthalmology workforce is of critical im...

Background/Objectives: Improving health outcomes for Indigenous people by strengthening the cultural safety of care is a vital challenge for the health sector. University Departments of Rural Health (UDRH), academic centres based in regional, rural,...

The distribution of the health workforce affects the availability of health service delivery to the public. In practice, the demographic and geographic maldistribution of the health workforce is a long-standing national crisis. In this study, we pres...

Background/Objectives: Although artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to strengthen disease surveillance, predictive analytics, preventive interventions, and population-level decision-making, its successful integration requires health system...

The attainment of health system goals is largely hinged on the health workforce availability and performance; hence, health workforce planning is central to the health policy agenda. This study sought to estimate health service activity standards and...

Background: The healthcare sector is under increasing pressure due to an ageing population, rising multimorbidity, and a projected global workforce shortage of 10 million by 2030. It is becoming increasingly apparent that addressing these challenges...

The World Health Organisation emphasises the importance of addressing gaps in health systems where rehabilitation services are poorly integrated. In South Africa, regions with the largest disability rates are usually the areas where rehabilitation is...

Background/Objectives: Canada’s long-term care (LTC) sector is struggling with a significant staffing crisis related to shortages, high-turnover rate, and challenging working conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these issues and emphas...

Background/Objective: The quality of care afforded to rural, remote, and First Nations Peoples is dependent on access to a health workforce with the capacity to contextualize healthcare and practice to the needs and expectations of these populations....

One in three people globally suffers from at least one form of malnutrition, leading to poor health outcomes and low productivity in the workplace. The workplace offers an important, relatively unexploited opportunity to address malnutrition in all i...

Background: Rehabilitation is an important health strategy. Due to the lack of rehabilitation professionals (e.g., no physical and rehabilitation medicine, occupational therapist, and others) and lack of rehabilitation services (e.g., no multi-profes...

The recent refugee crisis presented a huge challenge for the Swedish mental health workforce. Hence, innovative mental health workforce solutions were needed. Unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) are a particularly vulnerable refugee group. Teaching Re...

Background/Objectives: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a disabling condition prevalent worldwide, requiring rehabilitation services from injury through community living. This study, conducted by representatives of the World Rehabilitation Alliance (WRA),...

Background/Objectives: Traditional community oral health programs (COHPs) often remain reactive, clinic-based, and insufficiently integrated with medical, social, and aged-care systems. As a result, they may be poorly positioned to address the needs...

Digital health innovations (DHIs) have the potential to transform access, continuity, and quality of healthcare in rural, regional, and remote (RRR) settings, yet they often fall short in practice. Barriers extend beyond infrastructure and technology...

Healthcare workers face greater risks for mental health conditions and chronic stress due to the demanding nature of their roles. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these challenges and increased vulnerabilities to long-term mental health conditions....

There is a need to enhance the behavioral health (BH) workforce. Paraprofessionals and peers are often on the “front lines” working with families affected by substance misuse. While they possess valuable lived experience, they often lack...

The increase in communicable and non-communicable disease incidence and prevalence, changing population demographics, along with concerns about pandemics, natural disasters, and wars, have highlighted the challenges faced by health systems. The study...

Background and Objectives: Health systems increasingly require workforce governance approaches that move beyond formal qualifications and make physician skills more visible for planning, education, quality management, and resource allocation. However...

There is a mental health crisis among young people in Canada, suggesting a need for evidence-based, community-engaged strategies to strengthen the youth mental health workforce. This study explores the learning and professional development outcomes o...

The pandemic necessitated teaching competencies that allow public health (PH) students to be immediately workforce ready. The shift to virtual learning provided an ideal time to consider pedagogies focused on applied learning opportunities, such as p...

Background/Objectives: This study aims to describe the experiences of healthcare professionals collaborating with Intercultural Mediators (IMs) in the care relationships with migrant patients. Methods: This study is a qualitative descriptive study. A...

Much is told regarding the need for greater diversity in the biomedical research workforce in terms of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. However, there are few evidence-based models that are tested and can have significant effects in this re...

Background/Objective: Research has indicated that providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted healthcare providers’ wellbeing and burnout. Much of the literature has focused on emergency department (ED) physicians and nurses...

This narrative review examines the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), a multidisciplinary approach used to evaluate and manage the health of older adults. CGA has been shown to improve functional status, reduce hospital readmissions, delay ins...

Background: Community-based case managers in health have been compared to glue which holds the dynamic needs of clients to a disjointed range of health and social services. However, case manager roles are difficult to understand due to poorly defined...

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...

This study addresses national shortages in school-based mental health (SBMH) providers, particularly in rural and high-needs areas, by examining two innovative training models designed to expand the school psychology workforce. The Grow Your Own (GYO...

The elderly dependency ratio in China has increased from 10.7% in 2003 to 17.8% in 2019, and there may be a link between the widespread withdrawal of family entrepreneurship in society and the increased dependency burden. Based on China Family Panel...

To address healthcare workforce shortages, Poland has experienced a significant expansion in medical education, characterized by a tripling of accredited institutions and a fourfold increase in student admissions over the past two decades. However, i...

To meet the increasingly complex needs of mental health consumers, it is essential for multidisciplinary clinicians to have capabilities across a range of psychosocial interventions. Despite this, there is scant evidence investigating the existing le...

An updated understanding of the U.S. oral health care system is essential for addressing the burden of oral disease, high dental expenditures, and persistent inequities in access. This narrative review synthesizes current evidence on the prevalence o...

Background: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, provides an evidence-based framework to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding through implementation of the Ten Steps to Succ...

Background: Nursing regulation is a key component of health system governance; however, its role in structuring the development and deployment of professional competencies remains insufficiently examined, particularly in emerging health systems. Obje...

Ergonomic risks critically impact workers’ occupational health, safety, and productivity, and thereby the sustainability of a workforce. In the construction industry, the physical demands and dynamic environment exposes workers to various ergon...

Background: Humanitarian emergencies disrupt infant and young child feeding (IYCF), weaken health systems, and increase risks of malnutrition, morbidity, and mortality. Although the Operational Guidance on the Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emerge...

Although the progressive clinical trajectory of motor neurone disease (MND) is widely understood, multiple challenges remain preventing optimal end-of-life care for this population with unique needs from the patient, carer and service provider perspe...

Background/Objectives: Community-based drug rehabilitation is a key component of public health strategies in China, with anti-drug social workers playing a frontline role in relapse prevention, social reintegration, and long-term recovery. However, t...

The UK long-term care workforce has endured difficult working conditions for many years. During the pandemic, the sector faced unprecedented challenges, which further exacerbated these conditions and brought concerns about workplace abuse and violenc...

Air pollution is a major problem that severely affects the health of inhabitants in developing countries’ urban areas. To deal with the problem, they may consider migration to another place as an option, which can result in the loss of skillful...