The health of British Columbians has continued to
improve over the past decade, with gains in healthadjusted life expectancy and a gradual decrease in the
gap between the life expectancy of women and men.(1)
These gains in health status have come, in part, as a
result of provincial efforts to strengthen ...
The regulation and oversight of the health professionals
responsible for providing care to patients in Ontario is
an important mechanism to ensure patients receive the
highest-quality care possible (e.g., by setting the
standards that professionals need to meet in their
practice) while mitigating, to the...
The purpose of this report is to inform deliberations among policymakers and stakeholders. It summarises the best available evidence regarding the design and implementation of policies for extending the use of non-medically trained primary health care workers to deliver cost-effective maternal and child ...
Human resource shortages in the health services are widely
acknowledged as a threat to the attainment of the healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Attempts to
optimize the potential of the existing health workforce are
therefore crucial. A more rational distribution of tasks and
responsibili...
There is an increasing focus on improving healthcare in order to ensure higher quality. Training programmes have been developed to teach health professionals and students formal quality improvement methods. This evidence scan explores the following questions: What types of training about formal quality i...
This dialogue to discuss the policy brief which outlines health policy options using the current research evidence is a fulfillment of one of UNHRO?s responsibilities of supporting evidence-based policy decisions. It was noted that there is an acute shortage of human resources for health in Africa and Ug...
There is a shortage and maldistribution of medically trained health professionals. These are important reasons why cost-effective MCH services are not available to over half the population of Uganda and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for MCH is slow. Optimising the roles of less specia...
European countries face common challenges in ensuring a well-performing
health workforce in times of existing and projected shortages. One of the
multiple aspects that determine the supply and performance of health workers
is the work environment, which plays a critical role.
Given the demographic change...
The international migration of health professionals has been a growingfeature of the global health agenda since the late 1990s. In Europe, theaccession of more countries to the European Union (EU) since 2004 hasincreased the scope for mobility among health workers and raisedadditional issues within the E...
