The Manpower Crisis in Mental Health

Cardiovascular manpower: the looming crisis.

Less than 10 years ago, conventional wisdom taught that there was an oversupply of specialists in a managed care environment and that the majority of needs in cardiovascular prevention and care could be provided by generalists. Healthcare planners called for a reduction in specialty training,1–4 and a number of cardiovascular training programs went through a period of downsizing. The demand for...

Toward solving the critical care manpower crisis.

In this issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Hoffman and colleagues1 describe an alternative model for providing critical care, by “extending” board-certified intensivists with critical care nurse practitioners. This study should be considered cautiously. It describes care of a relatively small number of patients, in only one center, and with only one intensivist-extender. Accordingly, the hypothesis is ...

economic crisis on mental health

The character Gordon Gecko in the film “Wall Street” lived by the mantra “Greed is Good.” The events that unfolded toward the end of 2008 exposed in dramatic fashion the downside to greed and led to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Economic contagion in the US spread rapidly as many countries experienced failures in key businesses, declines in consumer w...

Economic crisis and mental health in Spain.

1 La Secretaría General del Congreso de los Diputado. Presupuesto por programas y memoria de objetivos. http://www.sepg.pap. minhap.gob.es/Presup/PGE2011Ley/ MaestroTomos/PGE-ROM/doc/L_11_E_G16. PDF (accessed Nov 29, 2013). 2 Gobierno de España. Programa Nacional de Reformas de España 2013. http://www. mineco.gob.es/stfl s/mineco/comun/pdf/PNR_ Espana_2013.pdf (accessed Dec 2, 2013). 3 Medicos ...

Trends in health manpower.