The 75th anniversary of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) presents an opportunity to celebrate the past accomplishments of state and territorial health agencies (SHAs) and consider their potential future. Several authors have examined the current and future needs of the governmental public health workforce and future trends impacting the governmental public healt...

The development and implementation of an evidence-based approach to health workforce planning is a necessary step to achieve access to best practice chronic disease management. In its absence, the widely reported failure in implementation of clinical best practice guidelines is almost certain to continue. This paper describes a demand model to estimate the community-based primary care health wo...

This paper, part of a series on hospital pharmacy across the globe, discusses current hospital pharmacy practice in Belgium. The paper is organized around the building blocks of the World Health Organization’s Health Systems Framework and covers the following topics: health information; health system leadership, governance, and financing; health workforce; health service delivery; access to med...

This paper reviews the challenges facing the public health workforce in developing countries and the main policy issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the public health workforce. The public health workforce is diverse and includes all those whose prime responsibility is the provision of core public health activities, irrespective of their organizational base. Although the public...

BACKGROUND Health workforce shortages in rural and remote areas are a global challenge that almost every health system has to deal with. This study aimed to discover neurosurgeons' job preferences and propose policy interventions that could possibly increase their retention in rural, remote, or underserved areas. METHODS A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in November 2014 with a...

BACKGROUND International recruitment is a common strategy used by high-income countries to meet their medical workforce needs. Ireland, despite training sufficient doctors to meet its internal demand, continues to be heavily dependent on foreign-trained doctors, many of whom may migrate onwards to new destination countries. A cross-sectional study was conducted to measure and analyse the factor...

Public health specialists and clinicians alike agree that Humanity faces a global pandemic of chronic diseases in the 21(st) century. In this article we discuss the implications of this pandemic on another global issue, the health workforce. Because both issues are particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), we will focus on this region and use Cameroon as a case in point. We first gauge th...