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2025
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Emily Owen-Boukra, Bryan Burford, Tanya Cohen, Claire Duddy, Harry Dunn, Vacha Fadia, Claire Goodman, Cecily Henry, Elizabeth Iris Lamb, Margaret Ogden, Tim Rapley, Eliot L. Rees, Etienne Royer-Gray, Gillian Vance, Geoff Wong, Sophie Park
General practitioner workforce sustainability to maximise effective and equitable patient care: a realist review
Abstract Background Global and United Kingdom (UK) primary care face significant General Practitioner (GP) workforce shortages. Worldwide strategies to address this issue include the introduction of additional healthcare professionals and increasing technology utilisation, to reduce GP workload. However, whether these...
2025
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Ehsanullah Alokozay, Ehtisham Haider, Neha Waseem, Najibullah Alokozay
Addressing global disparities in neurosurgical workforce and access to care
Neurosurgical care remains inaccessible to over two-thirds of the global population, with the greatest burden falling on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Neurological disorders contribute to nearly 9 million deaths annually, while an estimated 22.6 million new cases require neurosurgical...
2025
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Andi Makkulawu Panyiwi Kessi, Ayyub Daeng Pananrang, Feronica Fungky Muchsidin, Muhammad Rizal, Ramlah Ramlah
The Role of Leadership in Effective and Efficient Human Resource Management Decision Making
This study examines the role of leadership in effective and efficient human resource management (HRM) decision-making. It analyzes leadership styles, including transformational, adaptive, ethical, and AI-driven leadership models; it explores how leadership strategies influence key HRM functions such as recruitment,...
2025
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Augustine Kumah
The future of patient safety in Ghana: challenges and opportunities
Patient safety is a critical aspect of healthcare that ensures the reduction of preventable harm to patients during the provision of care. Patient safety has recently gained increasing attention in Ghana, but significant challenges remain. These include inadequate healthcare infrastructure,...
2025
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Gafar Alawode, Ayodeji Ajibola, Morohunranti S. Sanusi, Ayomide B. Adewoyin, Kafayat A Alawode
Optimizing the health workforce for Universal Health Coverage: a framework for analysis and action
BACKGROUND: The health workforce or human resources for health (HRH) is the bedrock of an efficient healthcare system, and the consequences of HRH shortage are evident in poor health service delivery. Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have a suboptimal...
2025
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Tong Liu, Dalian Liu
Enhancing teacher recruitment and retention through decision-making models in education systems
Teacher recruitment and retention remain critical challenges for education systems worldwide, with far-reaching implications for educational quality and institutional sustainability. Traditional approaches often fail to address the complexity of these issues, neglecting the interplay of multiple conflicting criteria and the...
2025
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Paul Sitsofe, Ryan Gibson
Workforce Development in Rural Ontario: An Examination of Experiences and Strategies
This study examines workforce development strategies in rural Ontario aimed at addressing skill gaps and labor shortages in key industries such as manufacturing and agriculture. Rural areas face unique challenges, including inadequate training options, youth outmigration, and an aging population....
2025
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Daphine Nyangoma, Ejuma Martha Adaga, Ngodoo Joy Sam-Bulya, Godwin Ozoemenam Achumie
Market Trend Analysis as a Strategic Tool for Workforce Development Programs: A Data-Driven Conceptual Model
In an era of rapid economic and technological transformation, workforce development programs must evolve to meet the changing demands of labor markets. This paper explores market trend analysis as a strategic tool for optimizing workforce development initiatives through data-driven conceptual...
2025
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Laura Jefferson, Su Golder, Ana Cristina Castro-Ávila, Elin Webster, Helen Anderson, Veronica Dale
General practice workforce retention strategies: an umbrella review
Abstract Objective We summarise international evidence of interventions to support retention of the general practice workforce, mapping evidence by country, method and workforce group. Design Umbrella overview of reviews. We mapped evidence according to occupational group, intervention type and outcome...
2025
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Retnosari, Muhammad Wahyudi
Digital Strategies, Workforce Skills, and the Path to Financial Resilience
Purpose: The focus of this paper is on how digital transformation, digital strategy, technology investments, workforce digital skills and customer engagement can help to build financial resilience. The moderating role of environmental uncertainty in these relationships is also examined.Method: A...
2025
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Evans Kasmai Kiptulon, Mohammed Elmadani, Anna Szőllősi, Miklós Zrı́nyi, Adrienn Ujváriné Siket
The race to retain nursing workforce in healthcare: an umbrella review of effectiveness of retention interventions and strategies
BACKGROUND: The global healthcare industry is facing a critical challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled nursing workforce. In recent decades, several retention interventions and strategies have been documented in numerous systematic literature reviews worldwide. However, the available information remains broad...
2025
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Zainab Lal, Mayuri Gogoi, Irtiza Qureshi, Amani Al‐Oraibi, Jonathan Chaloner, Padmasayee Papineni, Susie Lagrata, Laura B Nellums, Christopher A. Martin, Katherine Woolf, Manish Pareek, on behalf of the UK-REACH Study Collaborative Group, Laura J. Gray, Laura B Nellums, Anna L. Guyatt, Catherine John, I. C. McManus, Ibrahim Abubakar, Amit Gupta, Avinash Aujayeb, Bindu Gregary, Rubina Reza, Sandra Simpson, Stephen Zingwe, Keith R. Abrams, Martin D. Tobin, Louise V. Wain, Sue Carr, Edward S. Dove, Kamlesh Khunti, David Ford, Robert C. Free
Redeployment and changes in working patterns of healthcare workers during COVID-19 in the UK: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Redeployment was critical in addressing the increased demands of COVID-19 on the healthcare system. Previous research indicates that ethnic minority healthcare workers (HCWs), those on visas, and in junior roles, were more likely to be redeployed to COVID-19 duties...
2025
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Dilipraj Dongre, Prateek Kanchan
THE FUTURE OF HIRING: IMPACT OF SKILL-BASED HIRING ON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIFELONG LEARNING
This paper explores the transformative potential of skill-based hiring as a strategic response to the evolving demands of the global labour market. By shifting the focus from traditional credential-based assessments to dynamic competency evaluations, organizations can foster greater agility, inclusivity,...
2025
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Jorge A. Huete‐Pérez, Narayana Salvatierra
Assessing biomedical research capacities in selected countries of Latin America: challenges, opportunities, and recommendations
Despite increasing scientific output, biomedical research in Latin America remains unevenly developed, particularly in countries that are often overlooked in regional science policy discussions. This study assesses research capacities in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, and Peru, identifying key challenges,...
2025
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Abby Foster, Simone Munro, Janet Golder, Debra Mitchell
Why they come, why they stay and why they leave: a survey to understand the drivers of recruitment, retention, and attrition of allied health clinicians in an Australian metropolitan health network
BACKGROUND: While allied health plays a central role in healthcare, workforce challenges are straining the sector. Challenges are shaped by population changes, emerging models of care, and educational limitations, and were exacerbated by COVID-19. This study aimed to identify drivers...
2025
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Saule Iskendirova, Aigerim Amirova, Aliya Daueshova, Azamat Zhanseitov, Rymkul Ismailova
Adapting to the AI revolution: comparative analysis of national workforce strategies
This paper assesses national workforce strategies for adapting to artificial intelligence (AI) across 55 countries.The background of the research is defined by the rapid diffusion of AI technologies, which creates new challenges and opportunities for labour markets and policy-makers worldwide.Objectives:...
2025
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Joshua Porat‐Dahlerbruch, Rebecca R. S. Clark, Branden Dutchess, Nancy P. Blumenthal, Moriah Ellen
Factors affecting integration of the nurse practitioner workforce into health systems: a Delphi consensus study
Research has documented the positive impact of the nurse practitioner workforce on patient and system outcomes in multiple countries. Achieving these outcomes relies on successfully integrating the workforce into the health system. Research has reported negative effects of integration barriers...
2025
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Cindy E. Frías, Nimesh Samarasinghe, Cecilia Cuzco, Jaseem Koorankot, Andrea Juan, Husameldin Mohamed Ali Rudwan, Hanan F. Abdul Rahim, Adelaida Zabalegui, Iain Tulley, Sanaa Al-Harahsheh, Mona Shaheen S. T. Al-Homaiddi, Meredith Fendt-Newlin, Jim Campbell
Strategies to support the mental health and well-being of health and care workforce: a rapid review of reviews
Background: Countries globally face challenges in educating, employing and retaining their health and care workforce, largely due to underinvestment in health systems. Health and care workforce report significantly greater levels of job-related burnout and mental health problems, which in turn...
2025
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Collins Atta Poku, Abital Ayergo Ahulu, Janet Otomo, Doris Hagan, Catherine Kroamah Dwumfour, Joseph Shahadu Issifu, Veronica Millicent Dzomeku
Occupational injuries, mental workload and coping strategies among the nursing workforce in the Eastern Region of Ghana: a multi-centre study
BACKGROUND: The nursing profession plays a crucial role in the quality of healthcare services. While nurses face occupational injury challenges globally, mental workload, which is often overlooked, plays a significant role in these injuries. Understanding nurses’ coping strategies can help...
2025
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Raditya Mokoagow, Wisnu Kunto Permadi
Employee Retention Strategies for Generation Z in the Workforce
Currently, the world of work is experiencing major changes in the demographic composition of its workforce. Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, is starting to enter the professional world and take on important roles in various sectors. The main...