This brief discusses the policy implications of a research study commissioned by Health Workforce Australia (HWA) within its health workforce innovation and reform work program. The project explored conceptually complex and operationally problematic concepts related to developing a whole-of-workforce competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the Australia...

this brief discusses the policy implications of a research study commissioned by health workforce australia (hwa) within its health workforce innovation and reform work program. the project explored conceptually complex and operationally problematic concepts related to developing a whole-of-workforce competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the australia...

Using the National Health Interview Survey Disability Supplement of 1994 to 1995, we examined the factors associated with employment among Americans with disabilities. Persons with disabilities who were more educated were more likely to be working. Married men were more likely to work than unmarried men (odds ratio [OR], 1.58). Blacks were less likely to work than whites (OR, 0.56). Persons wit...

OBJECTIVE Diabetes is a highly prevalent condition that results in substantial morbidity and premature mortality. We investigated how diabetes-associated mortality, disability, early retirement, and work absenteeism impacts workforce participation. DATA SOURCE We used the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a national household sample of adults aged 51-61 in 1992, as a data source. STUDY DES...

ed women to the private roles of mother and caretaker and excluded them from the public roles of serious entities in the workforce. Gradually, however, legal and political changes began to favor gender equality. The passage of the 1997 Equal Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL) and international legal pressure resulting from Japan’s ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

OBJECTIVES To use data from the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) to examine differences in employment among community-living, working-age adults (aged 18-64 years) with disabilities who live in Medicaid expansion states and nonexpansion states. METHODS Analyses used difference-in-differences to compare trends in pooled, cross-sectional estimates of employment by state expansion status f...

A ‘Just Transition’ seeks to protect the rights of workforce throughout transition away from high carbon industries and towards sustainable economic sectors. This includes reskilling where appropriate a fair distribution benefits, alongside recognition participation affected communities. Drawing on systematic literature review case study delineated by 38 English Local Enterprise Partnerships we...

INTRODUCTION Oman's recent experience in health workforce development may be viewed against the backdrop of the situation just three or four decades ago, when it had just a few physicians and nurses (mostly expatriate). All workforce categories in Oman have grown substantially over the last two decades. Increased self-reliance was achieved despite substantial growth in workforce stocks. Stocks ...

BACKGROUND Because of the demographic changes, appropriate measures are needed to prevent early exit from work and to encourage workers to prolong their working life. To date, few studies have been performed on the factors motivating continuing to work after the official age of retirement. In addition, most of those studies were based on quantitative data. The aims of this study were to examine...