Correspondence to Dr Ashton Barnett-Vanes; ashton.barnett-vanes11@ alumni.imperial.ac.uk The global health workforce is under immense strain. For example, Africa—a continent with one-third of the world’s disease burden has only ∼3% of global health personnel. This year WHO launched its Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health (GSHRH)—calling for a redoubling of efforts to better train and ...

BACKGROUND The nurse practitioner is a growing clinical role in Australia and internationally, with an expanded scope of practice including prescribing, referring and diagnosing. However, key gaps exist in nurse practitioner education regarding governance of specialty clinical learning and teaching. Specifically, there is no internationally accepted framework against which to measure the qualit...

Brief Summary: In this perspective, the authors argue that non-governmental organisations (NGO), such as Santé Diabète, can play a role in strengthening of health systems and improve leadership governance, service delivery workforce.

This paper examines whether corporate governance mechanisms influence the association between workforce reductions and post-acquisition operating performance. Using UK-based acquisitions, it is found that there a negative relationship employment However, results show this becomes positive when board has substantial equity ownership. suggests acquirers with higher levels of ownership make better...

The Public Health Action Organizational Contract (COAP) / Decree 7.508/2011 aimed to seal health agreements made between federated entities to promote the cooperative governance and management of Health Regions. A qualitative study was carried out adopting a hermeneutic approach to understand state health managers' perceptions of the elaboration and effects of the COAP in the State of Ceará. Op...

CONTEXT Public health practice is information-intensive and information-driven. Public health informatics is a nascent discipline, and most public health practitioners lack necessary skills in this area. OBJECTIVE To describe the staff development needs of local health departments (LHDs) related to informatics. DESIGN Data came from the 2015 Informatics Capacity and Needs Assessment Survey,...

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have been developing in some countries for over 10 years but still suffer from having a relatively small installed base. Most SDIs will soon converge around a service-oriented-architecture (SOA) using IT standards promulgated primarily by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO Technical Committee 211. There are very few examples of these types of archit...

The PEPFAR HIV/AIDS program has had noticeable impacts on the Nigerian health system. The impacts are presented using the World Health Organization (WHO) health system six building blocks. These include service delivery, health workforce, health information, medical products, vaccines and technologies, financing and governance. PEPFAR HIV/AIDS program has improved the delivery of prevention and...

BACKGROUND The migration of dentists is a major policy challenge facing both developing and developed countries. Dentists from over 120 countries migrate to Australia, and a large proportion are from developing countries. The aim of the study was to assess the life story experience (LSE) of migrant dentists in Australia, in order to address key policy challenges facing dentist migration. METH...