Health workforce includes clinically trained health professionals, health management and support workers. Imbalance in health workforce is a major challenge, as its size and quality positively determine country’s ability to meet its goals of organizing and delivering health services, like immunization coverage, outreach of primary care etc. Unfortunately, India has uneven, inequitable and mal-d...

The aim of this scoping review was to identify and characterize the recent literature pertaining to the education of the public health workforce worldwide. The importance of preparing a public health workforce with sufficient capacity and appropriate capabilities has been recognized by major organizations around the world (1). Champions for public health note that a suitably educated workforce ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the US public health nutrition workforce and its future social, biological and fiscal challenges. DESIGN Literature review primarily for the four workforce surveys conducted since 1985 by the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors. SETTING The United States. SUBJECTS Nutrition personnel working in governmental health agencies. The 198...

With 2.7 trillion dollars in annual health spending, America has no excuse for designs that have failed for decades with regard to rural health workforce development. Rural workforce failure can best be understood as the inevitable result of failure by design. Designs for revenue are insufficient to support the rural clinician workforce that would resolve deficits. The designs of health profess...

It is widely accepted that diversifying the nation's health-care workforce is a necessary strategy to increase access to quality health care for all populations, reduce health disparities, and achieve health equity. In this article, we present a conceptual model that utilizes the social determinants of health framework to link nursing workforce diversity and care quality and access to two criti...

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The study of the health workforce has gained in prominence in recent years, as the dynamic interconnections between human resource issues and health system effectiveness have come into sharper focus. This paper reviews lessons relating to strategic management challenges emerging from the growing literature in this area. Workforce issues are strategic: they affect overall system performance as w...

Karen Jones, MApStat, senior data analyst, Workforce Studies, Association of American Medical Colleges Community Health Workers: An Underused Resource, Rediscovered Monica Whatley, MS, data marketing analyst, Southern Poverty Law Center; Clese Erikson, MPAff, deputy director, Health Workforce Research Center, The George Washington University; Shana Sandberg, PhD, research scientist, National Co...