Health Workforce Shortages: Do Global Healthcare Dollars Equate to Workforce Sense?

Author(s)Watson, Amanda
Date Accessioned2024-06-18T16:50:55Z
Date Available2024-06-18T16:50:55Z
Publication Date2024-05-13
DescriptionThis is a non-final version of an article published in final form in Watson, Amanda DNP, CNM, APRN. Health Workforce Shortages: Do Global Healthcare Dollars Equate to Workforce Sense?. The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing 38(2):p 124-125, April/June 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/JPN.0000000000000811. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1097/JPN.0000000000000811. © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. This article will be embargoed until 05/13/2025.
AbstractAn adequate, skilled, and well-distributed workforce is essential to preserving the quality, accessibility, and sustainability of the global health system and efforts toward universal health coverage.1,2 Despite reduction of overall health workforce (HWF) shortage estimates to 10.2 million by 2030, from a previous estimate of 18 million, we are seeing HWF disparities more than double in the 47 countries identified in the World Health Organizationʼs (WHO) support and safeguard list.2 Midwives and their workforce equivalents contribute significantly to critical human resource pools needed to address maternal and infant health indicators worldwide, yet growth of jobs and educational programs continue to lag.2,3 Medical technology and foreign labor exchanges reflect migration patterns from low-to middle-income countries (LMICs) toward high-income countries (HICs) in North America and Western Europe, despite regulatory efforts and ethical guidelines regarding human resource trade.1,2 Natural disasters, conflict, and disease pandemics, such as COVID-19, further stress already compromised healthcare education, training, and workforce pools, in ways we have yet to fully understand.2,4 The responsibility for resolution to this crisis lies internationally, as the fluidity of medical technology and labor exchanges across international borders uniquely characterize the global workforce issues of our generation.1,5
CitationWatson, Amanda DNP, CNM, APRN. Health Workforce Shortages: Do Global Healthcare Dollars Equate to Workforce Sense?. The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing 38(2):p 124-125, April/June 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/JPN.0000000000000811
ISSN1550-5073
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/34505
Languageen_US
PublisherJournal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing
Keywordsglobal
Keywordsinternational
Keywordshealth workforce
Keywordsmidwifery
Keywordsshortages
Keywordsdisparities
TitleHealth Workforce Shortages: Do Global Healthcare Dollars Equate to Workforce Sense?
TypeArticle
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