This special issue of Australian Health Review features original research articles, reviews and perspectives dedicated to the theme strengthening the allied health workforce. Of the total healthworkforce,more than 126 000 are registered allied health practitioners in Australia. With the growing demands upon the health system from patients with complex and chronic conditions, there is a resurgen...

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 ...

Healthcare delivery in the US changed with the adoption of the electronic medical record (EMR). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) were signed into legislation in 2009 and 2010, with the latter designed to encourage EMR use [1]. With these changes in healthcare del...

Abstract We revisit predictions about the relationship between gender diversity and firm productivity using data on 1,082 manufacturing firms from six Sub-Saharan African countries: Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia Kenya. Recent evidence suggests that a gender-diverse workforce opens up to vast range talent, knowledge perspectives critical enhancing innovation probl...

A new study in the INFORMS journal Operations Research proposes a data-driven model for conducting strategic workforce planning organizations. The optimizes recruitment and promotions by balancing risks of not meeting headcount, budget, productivity constraints, while keeping within prescribed organizational structure. Analysis using indicates that there are increased faced organizations state ...

Background. Occupational therapy (OT) academic educators are vital in building the workforce and advancing profession. With retirement of senior faculty, hiring new OT faculty members have increased. There also been changes national global policy guidelines education. These brought forth a compelling need to examine profile Filipino educators. To this date, there has no formal analysis Philippi...

BACKGROUND Coal mining is of significant economic importance to the Australian economy. Despite this fact, the related workforce is subjected to a number of psychosocial risks and musculoskeletal injury, and various psychological disorders are common among this population group. Because only limited research has been conducted in this population group, we sought to examine the relationship betw...

Changes occurring in the business and socio-economic global environments increase the complexity of working systems. The global workforce is becoming more diverse where people from different social, cultural, geographical and technical backgrounds work together in spite of their existing differences. Existence of varying human responses caused due to variations in individual’s physical, physiol...