The Future Health Workforce: Integrated Solutions and Models of Care

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; advanced skills; allied health; attributes; Australia; career choice; climate change; cognitive behaviour therapy; competencies; Covid-19; dental hygienist; doctors; economic sustainability; Europe; experience; family physicians; general practice; general practitioners; generalist; group intervention; health and social care; health equity; health service management; health workforce; history; human resource shortage; improvement science; integrated care; integration; interdisciplinary; job attractiveness; job satisfaction; local context; management competency, Chinese hospitals; management workforce development; medical directors; medical education; medical faculty; medical training; medicine; mental counselling; mental health workforce; n/a; new ways of working; norms; nursing students; older people; operational models; patient-centred care; planning; postgraduate medical training; primary health care; psychological counselling; public health; public health education; qualitative research; racism; realist evaluation; recruitment; retention; rural health workforce; rural population; rural workforce; scope of practice; shortage; skill mix; social cognitive; social media; social work; specialist; stepped care model; sustainable return on investment (S-ROI); teaching recovery techniques; teamwork; theory; thinking; trained lay counsellors; turnover; unaccompanied refugee minors; vocational education; WELLCAST ROI™; work environment; Workers' Healthcare Assistance Model (WHAM); workforce management; workforce planning; workforce policy; workforce solution
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036514673; 9783036514680; books978-3-0365-1468-0
• Access: Open Access

This edited collection brings together a diverse set of original research and review articles that contribute towards a unified objective of redesigning the future health workforce. Our fundamental premise is that the future health workforce needs to be more closely aligned to population needs and be able to address emerging challenges of the 21st century. • The collection includes 13 articles (11 original research; 2 review) from nine countries. • Original research articles that contributed to this special issue came from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. • The collection features a range of health professionals including medical, dental, nursing, allied health, social work, and health management workforce. This unique piece of scholarship adds to ongoing global efforts on health workforce integration, universal health coverage, and creating sustainable and people-centric health systems