[EQ] The Health Care Workforce in Europe. Learning from experience

The Health Care Workforce in Europe - Learning from experience

Editors:

Bernd Rechel, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,
United Kingdom.

Carl-Ardy Dubois, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing Sciences,
University of Montreal, Canada.

Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene
& Tropical Medicine, and Research Director, European Observatory on Health
Systems and Policies, London, United Kingdom

The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2006

Available online as PDF file [160p.] at:
http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E89156.pdf

“….A trained and motivated workforce, with appropriate skills, a commitment
to life-long learning and receiving adequate rewards is an essential
pre-requisite for high-performing health systems. Yet, for many countries
the challenge of getting this right too often proves elusive.

How do you ensure the right skill-mix, so that the appropriate staff is in
the right places to meet the needs of populations with changing health
needs? How do you cope with unprecedented levels of international mobility
of health professionals, when minor changes in working conditions in another
country can make the difference between surplus and scarcity? How do you
ensure that the rewards are commensurate with the contributions that staff
is making, especially when there are many other employment opportunities
open to them?

There are no easy answers, but in this book we have brought together the
experiences of a range of countries that are all struggling with these
issues. We hope that they will provide lessons for others facing similar
challenges…..”

Contributors include: Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Are-Harald Brenne, James
Buchan, Reinhard Busse, Kirill Danishevski, Carmen Delia Dávila Quintana,
Carl-Ardy Dubois, Beatriz González López-Valcárcel, Kenneth Grech, Zeneta
Logminiene, Martin McKee, Alan Maynard, Zilvinas Padaiga, Jack Reamy, Bernd
Rechel, Elena Rodríguez Socorro, Liudvika Starkiene, Monika Strózik, Suzanne
Wait, Susanne Weinbrenner.

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