S recent reports have highlighted the mismatch between the health needs of the U.S. population and the specialty distribution of newly trained physicians, the continuing geographic maldistribution of physicians within the country, inadequate diversity among physicians, gaps in physicians’ skills for practicing in the new health care delivery context, and the lack of fiscal transparency in the g...

BY MICHAEL W. PEREGRINE AND JAMES R. SCHWARTZ T he year 2009 witnessed an extraordinary series of developments in nonprofit corporate and charitable trust law as they affect the governance and operation of hospitals and health care systems. This is consistent with a decade-long trend that has made corporate law and governance key legal feasibility considerations for nonprofit organizations. The...

BACKGROUND Patient-centred care based on needs has been gaining momentum in health policy and the workforce. This creates new demand for interprofessional teams and redefining roles and tasks of professionals, yet little is known on how to implement new health policies more effectively. Our aim was to analyse the role and capacity of health professions in driving organisational change in interp...

Latino/a/x workers perform labor-intensive forestry and fire stewardship work in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, but are not well recognized research practice about wildfire governance. This industry has pervasive issues of unsafe working conditions, inequitable wage practices, violations worker rights, limited opportunity for advancement, a lack recognition inclusion decision making. We draw on li...

BACKGROUND The relevance and effectiveness of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Personnel will be reviewed by the World Health Assembly in 2015. The origins of the Code of Practice and the global health diplomacy process before and after its adoption are analyzed herein. METHODS AND RESULTS Case studies from the European and eastern and southern African regio...

PURPOSE Training family medicine residents in underserved settings, such as community health centers (CHCs), may provide a solution to the primary care workforce shortage. We sought to describe the facilitators and barriers to creating partnerships between CHCs and family medicine residencies (FMRs). METHODS We conducted 19 key informant interviews and 3 focus groups to identify the key facto...

Medical education and training in Australia comprises four phases: basic education, prevocational training, vocational training and continuing professional development. Between the 1860s and 1960s, eight medical schools were established in Australia, admitting school leavers to courses comprised of preclinical, paraclinical and clinical phases. Between the 1970s and the 1990s, two innovative ne...

CONTEXT The field of public health faces multiple challenges in its efforts to recruit and retain a robust workforce. Public health departments offer salaries that are lower than the private sector, and government bureaucracy can be a deterrent for those seeking to make a difference. OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to explore the relationship between general employee satisfaction...

We conducted a follow-up analysis of the implementation of the Human Resources for Health (HRH) commitments made by country governments and other actors at the Third Global Forum on HRH in 2013. Since then member states of the WHO endorsed Universal Health Coverage as the main policy objective whereby health systems strengthening, including reinforcement of the health workforce, can contribute ...

BACKGROUND A suitable definition of primary care to capture the variety of prevailing international organisation and service-delivery models is lacking. AIM Evaluation of strength of primary care in Europe. DESIGN AND SETTING International comparative cross-sectional study performed in 2009-2010, involving 27 EU member states, plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. METHOD Outcome ...