One of the most serious obstacles to the development of effective health services is inadequate supply of trained … health manpower. An overview is presented of the current numbers and types of health personnel, their roles and trends over … geographical distribution of medical personnel is extremely uneven and that there is a need for fundamental changes in health …

employment rates among European older workers, taking into account a key but often neglected determinant: health status. Design …. Agents are heterogeneous according to two attributes: distance to retirement and health. The authors complete this … exhibit lower exit rates from unemployment, an effect that gets enhanced by health problems. The empirical work, based on a …

a large Italian administrative database on careers and health. The study design is based on the balancing of individuals …-term unemployment on health (RR=2.79, p <0.01). Originality/value The very large representative sample ( n =69,937) and the deep … longitudinal dimension of the data (1985-2008) allowed the authors to minimize the risks of health selection and unemployment …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of health promotion interventions in Queensland … competitive tender to renew their service contract. The research therefore provided an opportunity to examine the impact of health … collected using a longitudinal survey of workers’ health, weekly logs recording health behaviour, and a post …

findings also show that meetings with friends increase job satisfaction through self-perceived health, suggesting a “buffering …

Purpose – How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy … and financial liberalization play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter …? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject …

Purpose – Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the … health-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is growing in … the world. Shortages in health professionals are reaching staggering levels in many parts of the globe. The paper aims to …