A call for action to establish a research agenda for building a future health workforce in Europe

Authors: Kuhlmann E, Batenburg R, Wismar M, Dussault G, Maier CB, Glinos IA, Azzopardi-Muscat N, Bond C, Burau V, Correia T, Groenewegen PP, Hansen J, Hunter DJ, Khan U, Kluge HH, Kroezen M, Leone C, Santric-Milicevic M, Sermeus W, Ungureanu M
Publication Year: 2018
Journal: Health Research Policy and Systems
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29925432

The importance of a sustainable health workforce is increasingly recognised. However, the building of a future health workforce that is responsive to diverse population needs and demographic and economic change remains insufficiently understood. There is a compelling argument to be made for a comprehensive research agenda to address the questions. With a focus on Europe […]
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Health workforce governance in Europe: Where are we going?

Authors: Batenburg R, Dussault G, Kuhlmann E
Publication Year: 2015
Journal: Health Policy
Link: http://www.healthpolicyjrnl.com/article/S0168-8510(15)00259-6/fulltext%20

In the European Union, better workforce governance is increasingly recognized as a burning policy issue. The healthcare sector is confronted with growing shortages and imbalances in the skills-mix and in the geographical distribution of health professionals. The future health workforce needs to respond to new healthcare needs resulting from demographic, epidemiological and socio-cultural changes. As […]
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Where health workforce governance research meets health services management.

Authors: Batenburg R, Dussault G, Kuhlmann E
Publication Year: 2016
Journal: Health Services Management Research
Link: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0951484816637747?journalCode=hsma%20

A deficit of one million healthcare workers forecasted in the European Union by 2020 turns the ‘universal truth’ that there is ‘no health without a workforce’ into the perhaps biggest challenge for future healthcare systems and services management. We argue that effective healthcare management needs systematic connections with health workforce macro- and meso-levels of governance. […]
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A call for action to establish a research agenda for building a future health workforce in Europe

Health workforce governance in Europe: Where are we going?

Where health workforce governance research meets health services management.

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