November 2006

The World Health Report of 2006 provided an expert assessment of the current crises in the global health workforce, with attention to the impacts of health worker migration on the health status of poor countries. The World Health Assembly requested that "Human Resources for Health" become a priority program area for the World Health Organization in the next decade. In recognition of growing international interest in the health workforce, The Centre de Sociologie et de Demographie Medicales (CDSM), a workforce research center in Paris, France, focused its quarterly journal to spotlight health workforce research around the world. The Center for Health Workforce Studies was invited to represent the U.S. and publish its work in the bilingual CDSM journal that was released in June 2006. The five papers prepared by the Center that appeared in the journal are:

U.S. Physician Workforce Forecasting: A Tale of Two States;
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Trends in Foreign-Trained Registered Nurses in the United States;
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Characteristics and Employment Patterns of Licensed Social Workers in the United States;
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The Impact of the Aging Population on the Health Workforce in the United States;
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Excerpts from the United States Health Workforce Profile.
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Download all five articles together: cahiersavjun2006.zip(1.9 MB)