Skills for the future health workforce

Educating the Future Workforce: Soft Skills Development in Undergraduate Translation Programs in Iran

The present study set out to investigate the concept of soft skills in academic translator education in Iran. To this aim, a needs assessment was conducted with two groups of stakeholders: i.e. translation professionals and translation students. The professionals were asked to indicate the importance of a set of soft skills in the context of the translation profession. Next, we examined through...

Assessing future health workforce needs

Building the Future Environmental Health Workforce.

Is our health workforce prepared for future health megatrends?

Megatrends have the ability to fundamentally impact how societies are shaped, operate and interact. Megatrends can best be described as an ‘important shift in the progress of society’. Classic examples of these societal impacts can be seen in the invention of the telephone or the ready availability of affordable commercial air travel. More importantly, as health is an outcome of how societies a...

Skills mix: future health policy and workforce planning in primary care.

The Department of Health strategy document, Primary Care: A New Direction, proposed primary care as the “team-based approach to service provision which will help to build capacity in primary care and contribute to sustainable health and social development” 1 . This strategy envisioned the establishment of a network of primary care centres staffed with GPs, nurses, physiotherapists, and soci...