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Home / Archives for Buchan J

Understanding nurses’ dual practice: a scoping review of what we know and what we still need to ask on nurses holding multiple jobs

  • Authors: Russo G, Fronteira I, Jesus TS, Buchan J
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Journal: Human Resources for Health
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824568/

Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world’s largest health professional workforce and a critical resource for achieving Universal Health Coverage. Nonetheless, little is known about nurses’ engagement with dual practice. We conducted a […]
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Recruitment and retention of health professionals across Europe: A literature review and multiple case study research

  • Authors: Barriball L, Bremner J, Buchan J, Craveiro I, Dieleman M, Dussault G, Jansen C, Kroezen M, Rafferty AM, Sermeus W
  • Publication Year: 2015
  • Journal: Health Policy
  • Link: http://www.healthpolicyjrnl.com/article/S0168-8510(15)00190-6/fulltext

Many European countries are faced with health workforce shortages and the need to develop effective recruitment and retention (R&R) strategies. Yet comparative studies on R&R in Europe are scarce. This paper provides an overview of the measures in place to improve the R&R of health professionals across Europe and offers further insight into the evidence […]
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Migration of nurses and doctors in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association

  • Authors: Buchan J, Craveiro I, Dussault G
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Journal: High-Skill Migration and Recession
  • Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9781137467119_5

Health workers have been mobile for many decades. In the past, doctors from countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand travelled to France, the US or the UK to acquire a specialty not available at home or which was more developed in the country of destination. From the 1950s on, doctors from newly independent countries […]
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How can structured cooperation between countries address health workforce challenges related to highly specialized health care?

  • Authors: Buchan J, Dussault G, Glinos I, Kroezen M, Wismar M
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Journal: Euro Observer - Newsletter Of The European Observatory On Health Care Systems
  • Link: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Health-systems/health-workforce/publications/2017/how-can-structured-cooperation-between-countries-address-health-workforce-challenges-related-to-highly-specialized-health-care

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Health workforce metrics pre- and post-2015: A stimulus to public policy and planning

  • Authors: Buchan J, Campbell J, Cometto G, Dussault G, Kunjumen T, Lopes SC, Nove A, Pozo-Martin F, Siyam A
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Journal: Human Resources for Health
  • Link: https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-017-0190-7

Evidence-based health workforce policies are essential to ensure the provision of high-quality health services and to support the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC). This paper describes the main characteristics of available health workforce data for 74 of the 75 countries identified under the ‘Countdown to 2015’ initiative as accounting for more than 95% of […]
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