BACKGROUND Despite its importance, the field of human resources for health (HRH) has lagged in developing methods to measure its status and progress in low- and middle-income countries suffering a workforce crisis. Measures of professional health worker densities and distribution are purely numerical, unreliable, and do not represent the full spectrum of workers providing health services. To pr...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND As part of a comprehensive study on the primary health care system in Iraq, we sought to explore primary care providers' perspectives about the main problems influencing the provision of primary care services and opportunities to improve the system. METHODS A qualitative study based on four focus groups involving 40 primary care providers from 12 primary health care c...

In the future, many changes, currently observed in the USA [1] and, to a lesser extent, in western Europe, will extensively affect ‘workforce’, ‘workplace’ and ‘work organization’. The changes expected in the workforce will be a larger proportion of workers aged .55 years and of female and migrant workers, including workers from other European countries. Two main changes will affect the workpla...

London' s Professional Support Unit (PSU) was launched in April 2012 at a time when changes and financial pressures across the health service were placing considerable demand on the medical and dental workforce. At the same time the infrastructure to support medical revalidation was established. The PSU provides developmental support to clinicians across London in all career grades and speciali...

good governance is an idea which has many advocates and opponents. from last years of 1980s this term became common. however, there is not any clear definition or description for good governance or even governance. though unanimity on its characteristics is invisible, it is possible to consider eight characteristics for god governance: participation, accountability, transparency, rule of law, r...

QUESTION Is the physiotherapy workforce significantly older in 2001 than 1986? What is the cumulative attrition of the workforce to 2001 and what is the predicted attrition by 2026? Is the workforce becoming masculinised? Is the workforce working longer hours? DESIGN Observational study using Australian Bureau of Statistics census data from 1986 to 2001 to predict workforce characteristics in...

Analytics is an emerging competency and an evolutionary step beyond traditional reporting and dashboarding, making it both an asset and liability to organizations. Organizations are currently implementing advanced analytic capabilities which require additional considerations not addressed by existing governance frameworks. A distinct analytics governance framework would help address issues surr...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Workforce and Career Development is committed to developing a competent, sustainable, and diverse public health workforce through evidence-based training, career and leadership development, and strategic workforce planning to improve population health outcomes. This article reviews the previous efforts in identifying priorities of public ...