The mental health workforce has changed dramatically since the mid-1970s. Nonphysician providers, particularly psychologists and clinical social workers, have become a much larger share of the workforce. While the supply of psychiatrists has been relatively stable, there has been a dramatic increase in the supply of psychologists and social workers. Changes in clinical practice, combined with t...

In this paper a hierarchical workforce model is studied from both a theoretical and an algorithmic point of view. In the considered model workforce units can be substituted by higher qualified ones; external workforce can also be hired to cover low qualified jobs. An exact solution algorithm is proposed to solve the problems and its efficiency is improved by means of cut conditions and discrete...

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A multi-objective simulated annealing (MOSA) algorithm is described in this chapter to solve a real maintenance workforce scheduling problem (MWSP) aimed at simultaneously minimizing the workforce cost and maximizing the equipment availability. Heavy industry maintenance facilities at aircraft service centres, railroad yards and steel companies must contend with scheduling Preventive Maintenanc...

This chapter examines the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and aggregate productivity. It is well known from the labor literature that there is a robust relationship between years of experience and income. If workers are paid their marginal product then this suggests a relationship between worker productivity and age. In the aggregate, therefore, we should expect changes ...

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...

Background In 2011 Libya experienced significant unrest. There were many thousands of casualties and increased acquired disabilities. Many rely on local care services. Health services planning in a post-conflict environment requires accurate workforce information so capacity can be identified and service provision matched. Very little information was available about disability services or the w...

internists contribute to the care of sizable populations for a vast variety of conditions. however, despite the importance of the need assessment for these specialists in iran remains uncharted. the purpose of this paper is to address this issue and to recommend further actions related to training of internists. internal medicine is a 4-year specialty program, for which candidates can take a sp...

BACKGROUND Research on practical and effective governance of the health workforce is limited. This paper examines health system strengthening as it occurs in the intersection between the health workforce and governance by presenting a framework to examine health workforce issues related to eight governance principles: strategic vision, accountability, transparency, information, efficiency, equi...

The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate that the medical workforce shortage is an international phenomenon and to review one of the strategies developed in the USA in the late 1960s: the physician assistant model of health service provision. The authors consider whether this model could provide one strategy to help address the medical workforce shortage in Australia. A systematic review of...