During the 20th century, the United States' public health workforce has been of sufficient interest to policy makers that regular efforts have been made to enumerate it. Limited enumeration is found as early as 1908; the last direct federal survey occurred in 1964. After 1964, workforce size was estimated. The ratio of public health workers to population reached an estimated 220/100,000 in 1980...

Health care reforms require fundamental changes to the ways in which the health workforce is planned, managed and developed within national health systems. While issues involved in such transition remain complex, their importance and the need to address them in a proactive manner are vital for reforms to achieve their key policy objectives. For a start, the analysis of human resources in the co...

Cite this article: Akin Oyemakinde, Patrick Nguku, Rebecca Babirye, Sheba Gitta, Peter Nsubuga, Joseph Nyager, Abdulsalami Nasidi. Building a public health workforce in Nigeria through experiential training. Pan Afr Med J. 2014;18(Supp 1):1

Problems in collection of uniform data on health education manpower on a continuing basis are discussed. Sources of data on current health education manpower projections for future needs are reviewed. Possible directions for improving manpower planning in this field are cited.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the attitudes, experiences and beliefs of advanced-level public health nutritionists with respect to public health nutrition workforce composition, core functions, competency requirements and existing workforce capacity. DESIGN Qualitative study using structured interviews. SETTING Australia. SUBJECTS Forty-one advanced-level public health nutritionists employed ...

As discussed in Chapter Three, reclassification is one of the strategies the Army employs to reduce personnel shortages and, in particular, to increase fill rates in shortage MOSs. It reutilizes existing manpower to fill force structure requirements. Reclassification courses give the Army an additional way to fine-tune its personnel distribution processes. Reclassification also gives soldiers a...

As the global population ages and the occurrence of single and “empty nest” elderly household increases, artificial companion agents will play a more important part in seniors’ daily life to bridge some of the gaps left by the shortage of caregiving manpower. This research focuses on improving the emotional interaction strategies of artificial companion agents and advising designers on how to p...