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Thinking Beyond the Silos: Emerging Priorities in Workforce Development for State and Local Government Public Health Agencies

CONTEXT Discipline-specific workforce development initiatives have been a focus in recent years. This is due, in part, to competency-based training standards and funding sources that reinforce programmatic silos within state and local health departments. OBJECTIVE National leadership groups representing the specific disciplines within public health were asked to look beyond their discipline-s...

Identification of Effective Factors on the Implementation of Health Reform Plan Package for the Improvement of Hoteling Quality: a qualitative study

Identification of Effective Factors on the Implementation of Health Reform Plan Package for the Improvement of Hoteling Quality: a qualitative study   Shaarbafchizadeh Nasrin1, Karimi Saeed2, Ansari Morteza3*   1. Assistant Professor, Health Management and Economics Research Center, School of Management and Medical Information, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2. Associ...

CAM practitioners in the Australian health workforce: an underutilized resource

BACKGROUND CAM practitioners are a valuable but underutilizes resource in Australian health care. Despite increasing public support for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) little is known about the CAM workforce. Apart from the registered professions of chiropractic, osteopathy and Chinese medicine, accurate information about the number of CAM practitioners in the workforce has been di...

Universal Health Coverage in Iran: A Review of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide access to basic health services with no financial constraints. In Iran, the major challenges to the implementation of the UHC plan include aggregation and augmentation of resources, something which could threaten the dimension of population coverage and health service delivery. Therefore, this study reviews the strengths and weaknesses...

Health Tourism: Opportunities, Constraints, Obstacles and Solutions