BACKGROUND Australia's health workforce is facing significant challenges now and into the future. Health Workforce Australia (HWA) was established by the Council of Australian Governments as the national agency to progress health workforce reform to address the challenges of providing a skilled, innovative and flexible health workforce in Australia. HWA developed Australia's first major, long-t...

BACKGROUND In 2010, the Ministry of Health in Zambia developed the National Community Health Assistant strategy, aiming to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into national health plans by creating a new group of workers, called community health assistants (CHAs). The aim of the paper is to analyse the CHA policy development process and the factors that influenced its evolution and conten...

A pedodontic manpower and productivity pilot project was conducted utilizing the pedodontic private practitioners of North Carolina. The responses demonstrated a traditional pedodontic practice in the services performed even though the mean age of the practitioners was fair]y young. Most practitioners had a single office located in a fluoridated area. Productivity results indicated that relativ...

The British Paediatric Association (BPA) has carried out a national survey of paediatric medical manpower in the hospital and community child health services. The results of the survey relating to England and Wales are presented and compared with Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) manpower statistics. On the basis of the survey findings and current trends in the pattern of paediatr...

An outpatient pharmacy of a tertiary hospital in Singapore had uncertainty over the impact of different manpower scheduling strategies on the length of time (that is, cycle time) that their patients needed to spend during their visits. This article illustrated how this uncertainty could be addressed via application of discrete-event simulation (DES). Recent service rates of pharmacy staff and m...

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Slephanie Pressel/CT. J'vI.s., OTR, 1:.1 Director, Education Division, 1'101'1'1. Issue Statement In several recent Nalionally Speak­ ing columns the authors have de­ scribed changes the occupational therapy profession is experiencing on a number of different fronts, including practice delivery sys­ tems, regulations governing health care, and so on. The profession is indeed undergoing changes,...