Health professionals providing health-care services must have the relevant competencies and clinical experiences needed to improve population health outcomes in different contexts. Current models of health profession education often fail to produce a fit-for-purpose workforce ready and willing to provide relevant, quality care to underserved communities. Evidence is emerging that community-enga...

strengthening the health workforce and universal health coverage (uhc) are among key targets in the heathrelated sustainable development goals (sdgs) to be committed by the united nations (un) member states in september 2015. the health workforce, the backbone of health systems, contributes to functioning delivery systems. equitable distribution of functioning services is indispensable to achie...

Thoroughly characterizing and continuously monitoring the public health workforce is necessary for ensuring capacity to deliver public health services. A prerequisite for this is to develop a standardized methodology for classifying public health workers, permitting valid comparisons across agencies and over time, which does not exist for the public health workforce. An expert working group, al...

In September 2009, the Board of Directors of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) approved the creation of the ADEA Task Force on the Education of Oral Health Professionals in Emerging Workforce Models. Its charge was to “enunciate a set of principles to guide the educational preparation of oral health professionals in emerging workforce models.” ADEA believes that its role, in coll...

Concerns have been raised about the capacity of the health workforce to meet increasing future health care demands. Strategies aimed at improving workforce supply, at least in Australia, are focused heavily on education (ie, increasing the number of training places in key health professions) and recruitment (ie, recruiting overseas-trained health care professionals). Data from the 2006 Australi...