The current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. By ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to review dementia nursing competencies. The objectives were to explain the relevancy of dementia competencies across care settings and levels of practice. BACKGROUND Dementia is strongly associated with increasing age and as the world population ages there is an imperative to ensure the healthcare workforce is fully equipped to meet the needs of ...

BACKGROUND Planning the health-care workforce required to meet the health needs of the population, while providing service levels that maximize the outcome and minimize the financial costs, is a complex task. The problem can be described as assessing the right number of people with the right skills in the right place at the right time, to provide the right services to the right people. The lite...

A n op-ed published last year in The New York Times titled " Why You Hate Work " highlighted Gallup Poll data that revealed that only 30% of employees in the United States and 13% across 142 countries feel engaged at work. 1 Noting the high rate of burnout , the authors declared that for most of us, work is a depleting, dispiriting experience that is getting worse. Within healthcare, stress and...

Primary care and the healthcare workforce can be considered the greatest challenges of SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde), principally in recent decades. This article aims to describe the growth and regional distribution of the professions requiring higher education registered in the primary healthcare units. This descriptive study with a quantitative approach is concerned with the 14 accredited prof...

The tragedies of India’s second wave covid-19 have exposed the entrenched inequalities between urban and rural areas, not least in healthcare workforce, writes Kamala Thiagarajan

BACKGROUND This study explored the impact of The Open University's (OU) preregistration nursing programme on students' employability, career progression and its contribution to developing the nursing workforce across the United Kingdom. Designed for healthcare support workers who are sponsored by their employers, the programme is the only part-time supported open/distance learning programme in ...

Healthcare providers (HCPs) experience unprecedented burnout. During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workforce was pushed beyond its capacity, driving some out of field, leaving hospitals and agencies to face unrelenting demand for care. Limited staff resources challenged organizations redesign infrastructure processes meet safety guidelines while balancing priorities finance people.

Background Published evidence on the drivers of absenteeism among the health workforce is mainly limited to high-income countries. Uganda suffers the highest rate of health workforce absenteeism in Africa, attracting attention but lacking a definitive ameliorative strategy. This study aimed to explore the underlying reasons for absenteeism in the public and private 'not-for-profit' health secto...