What will the healthcare system and healthcare organizations look like in the year 2020? What requirements will they have for health human resources? This article is organized in five brief sections, beginning with looking backward to look forward and proceeding through key trends, organizational evolution by sector and future health organizations and concluding with 10 implications for health ...

establishing justice in healthcare services is currently a major challenge for public healthcare systems, especially in developing countries. inadequate distribution of resources and facilities is among the root causes of unfair access to healthcare. using ranking mechanisms, healthcare managers are able to compare different areas in terms of the services they receive, which will help achieve b...

Background and Objectives: Working in hospital is stressful, and this may result in deviant behaviors of clinical staff and thus irreparable damages to the patients’ health. It is, therefore, crucial to empower hospital workers in managing job stress to ensure high quality of healthcare. Psychological and social capitals have been shown to influence organizational behaviors of the employees. Th...

background avante zambéziais an initiative of a non-governmental organization (ngo), friends in global health, llc (fgh) and the vanderbilt institute for global health (vigh) to provide technical assistance to the mozambican ministry of health (moh) in rural zambézia province. avante zambézia developed a district level health management mentorship (hmm) program to strengthen health systems in t...

responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-saharan countries have scaled up training of nonphysician clinicians (npcs), resulting in a gradual but decisive shift to npcs as the cornerstone of healthcare delivery. this development should unfold in parallel with strategic rethinking about the role of physicians and with innovations in physician education and in-service training. in ...

OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal medicine is becoming an increasingly essential part of primary care medicine. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Surgical Advisory Panel recently published voluntary guidelines to establish diagnoses that should be referred to a pediatric specialist rather than a general specialist (pediatric orthopedic surgery vs general orthopedic surgery). Given the crisis in ...