Subsidized primary care and community health worker (CHW) visits are important demand side policies in the effort to achieve universal health care for children under five. Causal evidence on the effects of these policies, alone and in interaction, is still sparse. This paper reports the effects...

This is the fourth report to be published applying the ESRI's Hippocrates healthcare projection model. Previous analyses have applied Hippocrates to estimate baseline utilisation and expenditure for a range of health and social care services and to provide national projections of demand,...

Subsidized primary care and community health worker (CHW) visits are important demand side policies in the effort to achieve universal health care for children under five. Causal evidence on the effects of these policies, alone and in interaction, is still sparse. This paper reports the effects...

To address regional inequities in access to healthcare, the U.S. government designates primary care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). Several programs use these designations to incentivize physicians to practice in areas of need, including a large program through which the Centers for...

From the last two years, a kind of fear of death has been haunting us, which is arising due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In comparison to other successful professions, healthcare professionals are more stressed, even in normal situations. The role of healthcare workers (Doctors, Nurse, Paramedical...

Für die Gesundheitsversorgung der Bevölkerung in Deutschland arbeiten derzeit rund 5,8 Millionen Beschäftigte im Gesundheitswesen. Dazu zählen auch die sogenannten Gesundheitsfachberufe. Die meisten Ausbildungen in Gesundheitsfachberufen wurden mit Blick auf die aktuellen und künftigen...

The quality of life and economic development of economies and their regions is influenced by socio-economic indicators such as unemployment, healthcare and education, environmental issues or household equipment. The question remains whether these indicators within regions can also influence each...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a major public health disaster having significant influence on economic, mental health and well-being of entire world population including North Macedonia. The existing literature is suggesting changes in the work performance and job satisfaction influencing mental...

Managing dual practice of health workers has often proved to be challenging, especially in emerging countries characterized by weak monitoring and low motivation. This paper exploits an exogenous variation in the initiation of private practice among heads of local public facilities (known as...

The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to temporary suspensions of many occupational licensing laws, especially for health care professionals, in an effort to manage surges in health care demand. The crisis highlights more general concerns about occupational licensing laws, yet convincing empirical...

The Philippine national government, through the Department of Health (DOH), has a long tradition of augmenting the supply of healthcare workers in underserved areas. Even with the adoption of the Local Government Code in 1991, which shifts the mandate of DOH from being the sole provider of...

This paper examines the unintended strategic effects of non-linear incentives in public policies. A system of health care subsidies structured in discrete intervals may lead to strategic behaviour. We provide new evidence on this issue, focusing on a case where the strategic actions are taken by...

We examine the effect of HIV/AIDS infection risks on the earnings of registered nurses (RNs) and other health care workers by combining data on metropolitan statistical area (MSA) AIDS prevalence rates with annual 1987 --2001 Current Population Survey (CPS) and quadrennial 1988 --2000 National...

The paper examines the adequacy of the health workforce in the public health sector in rural India. We find that even after a decade of implementation of the NRHM, India’s rural health sector has been suffering from an acute shortage of health workforce. The shortage of health workforce...

The women who paved the way : at the beginning of Indian nurses' migration / Marie Percot -- Decision-making of international migration : a case study of Indian nurses in New Zealand / Yuko Tsujita, Hisaya Oda and S Irudaya Rajan -- Analysing health professional mobility from India to Canada /...

We ask how competition influences the prescribing practices of physicians. Law changes granting nurse practitioners (NPs) the ability to prescribe controlled substances without physician collaboration or oversight generate exogenous variation in competition. In response, we find that general...

Burnout of physicians and other medical personnel is a major problem in the economics of healthcare systems, potentially costing billions of dollars. Knowledge of the determinants and costs of burnout at the organization level is sparse, making it difficult to assess the net benefits of...

This study analyses recent trends in the mobility of health professionals in Europe. It first identifies the drivers of this mobility, then analysis its main push-and-pull factors, and finally shows how different European countries are affected by these recent movements of health professionals....

Der Diskurs über die postgraduale Weiterbildung im Gesundheitswesen setzt eine grundlegende Auseinandersetzung mit der Lissabon-Agenda und dem Brügge/Kopenhagen-Prozess, dem europäischen Pendant zum national ausgelegten Bologna-Prozess, voraus. Während der Bologna-Prozess die universitäre...

Purpose: The economic crisis in Greece has caused widespread suffering both in society and the economy. Among other things, new forms of geographical mobilities emerged highlighting the country’s inability to retain a scientifically skilled workforce. One of the most important scientific...

The aim of the paper is to determine how much intangible motives are involved in nursing satisfaction. The research population consisted of nurses with secondary and university degrees in the field of multiple health centers in the central part of Croatia. Random selection based on data...

The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated the long-standing skills shortages in the health workforce across countries. Equipping health workers with the right skills is essential to respond to future health crises, to prepare for increasing use of digital technologies, and to plan for...

Did Medicare Make Nursing Work Invisible? / Kathryn McPherson (York University) -- “One foot on each side of the border:” Dr Frederick Dodge Mott, Rural Health, and “Socialized” Medical Care in the United States and Canada, 1930s-1970s / J.T.H. Connor (Memorial University) -- “One foot...

We examine the labor market impact of states easing occupational license requirements by expanding the scope of practice (SOP) for nurse practitioners (NPs), allowing them to practice without physician oversight. Using data on job postings, we find that employers increase their demand for NPs...