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Published: 28 October 2021

Newsletter EUPHA-HWR March2021

Dear colleagues,

EUPHA Health Workforce Research (HWR) section at the

14th European Public Health Conference, 10-12 November 2021; https://ephconference.eu/app/programme/

 

  • Join-the-Network session, Thursday, 11 November, 12.40-13.40h, zoom

Everybody welcome, this session is accessible via a zoom link and free of charge; https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81541244651?pwd=Tnl3UnB1ZDhlUm5sYVZFWUdTbVZIQT09; access code 813358. Do NOT share the link on social media please to avoid misuse. The meeting will be interactive and more informal, aiming to provide a platform for knowledge exchange. Colleagues from partner organisations and everybody else working in the field of health workforce research and policy are warmly welcome to share their projects and ideas. Also, Pascal Zurn, WHO Geneva will introduce the WHO Health Labour Market Analysis Guidebook, forthcoming in 2022.

 

  • Workshop ‘Protecting and preparing healthcare workers: what to learn from COVID-19 to strengthen resilience?’ Wednesday, 10 November, 16.10-17.10h, room M

Organised in collaboration with the Observatory and WHO Regional Office for Europe

Chairs: Ellen Kuhlmann, Matthias Wismar and Tomas Zapata

Contributions:

The health workforce: central to an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe Zapata T, Buchan J, Azzopardi-Muscat N

How are countries supporting health workers? Data from the COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor, Williams G, Scarpetti G, Bezzina A, … Maier CB

Health workforce protection and preparedness during COVID-19: a rapid assessment of EU countries, Kuhlmann E, Brînzac M, Burau V, Correia T, Ungureanu MI

Health system resilience and health workforce capacities: health system responses during COVID-19, Burau V, Kuhlmann E, Falkenbach M, Neri S, Peckham S, Wallenburg I

 

  • EUPHA panel ‘COVID-19: What have we learned, what are the public health challenges?’, Friday, 12 November, 9.00-10.00h, room C

EUPHA-HWR section/ Ellen Kuhlmann will participate as panellist and address the situation of the health workforce during the pandemic.

 

  • Multilateral partnerships to achieve SDG5 ‘Gender’ and to combat the effects of COVID-19, Thursday, 11 November, 17.30-18.30h, room A

EUPHA-HWR section supports the panel as co-organiser.

 

Health workforce research will be presented in room M, but may also be considered in other tracks. An interesting collection of posters is available during the entire EPH Conference.

 

Publications

EUPHA-HWR contributes to the new EUPHA Supplement of European Journal of Public Health (available in November 2021)

Health workforce preparedness and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic: a tool for rapid assessment of European Union countries; 2021, DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckab152

Kuhlmann E, Brinzac MG, Burau V, Correia T, Ungureanu M-I.

 

WHO Health Labour Market Analysis Guidebook, Geneva: WHO, official launch in February 2022; EUPHA-HWR collaborated through its Vice-President Gilles Dussault who was involved in the preparation.

 


Special Issue in collaboration with EUPHA-HWR.

Articles are available ‘open access’ or ‘free access’, please visit the website; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991751/2021/36/S1  

Global health and health workforce development: education, management and policy during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond

Guest editors Ellen Kuhlmann, Gilles Dussault and Tiago Correia

Kuhlmann E, Dussault G, Correia T. Editorial. Global health and health workforce development: what to learn from COVID-19 on health workforce preparedness and resilience? International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1); 5–8; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3160

Zapata T, Buchan J, Azzopardi-Muscat N. The health workforce: central to an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1): 9-13; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hpm.3150  

Czabanowska K, Kuhlmann E. Public health competences through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic: what matters for health workforce preparedness for global health emergencies. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1):14-19; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3131

Guillén E, Buissonnière M, Lee CL. From lionising to protecting healthcare workers during and after COVID-19: systems solutions for human tragedies. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1):20-25; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3138

Engelbrecht B, Gilson L, Barker P, Vallabhjee K, Kantor G, Budden M, Parbhoo A, Lehmann U. Prioritizing people and rapid learning in times of crisis: a virtual learning initiative to support health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hpm.3149

Lotta G, Fernandez M, Correa M. The vulnerabilities of the Brazilian health workforce during health emergencies: analysing personal feelings, access to resources and work dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1):42-57; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hpm.3117

Hussain M, Begum T, Hussain B, et al. Healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: experiences of doctors and nurses in Bangladesh. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1): 174-181; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hpm.3154

Denis J-L, Côté N, Fleury C, Currie G, Spyridonidis D. Global health and innovation: a panoramic view on health human resources in COVID-19 pandemic context. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1), 58-70; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3129

Usman SK, Moosa S, Abdulla AS. Navigating the health system in responding to health workforce challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Maldives. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1): 184-189; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3136

Gupta N, Balcom SA, Gulliver A, Witherspoon RL. Health workforce surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic and other global respiratory disease outbreaks: a systematic review of health system requirements and responses. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1):26-41; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3137

Köppen J, Hartl K, Maier CB. Health workforce response during Covid-19: what planning and action at the federal and state in Germany? International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1):41-91; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3146

Rees GH, Quispe FP, Scotter C. The implications of COVID‐19 for health workforce planning and policy: the case of Peru. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1): 190-197; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3127

Dinić M, Šantrić Milićević M, Mandić-Rajčević S, Tripković K. Health workforce management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey of physicians in Serbia. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1): 92-111; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hpm.3141

Kreitlow A, Steffens S, Jablonka A, Kuhlmann E. Support for global health and pandemic preparedness in medical education in Germany: students as change agents. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1): 112-123; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3143

Treviño-Reyna G, Czabanowska K, Haque S, Magaña-Valladares L, Plepys CM, Middleton J. Employment outcome and job satisfaction of international public health professionals. What lessons for public health and COVID-19 pandemic preparedness? International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1): 124-150; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hpm.3140

Krasna H, Czabanowska K, Beck A, Cushman LF, Leider JP. Labour market competition for public health graduates: a comparison of workforce taxonomies with job postings in the US before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021; 36(S1): 151-167; https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3128

 

EUPHA-HWR Special Issue, Health labour markets and the ‘human face’ of the health workforce, European Journal of Public Health 2020;30(Suppl 4), iv1-iv38

Guest editors: Ellen Kuhlmann, Gilles Dussault and Matthias Wismar

https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/issue/30/Supplement_4

 

WHO. Investing in and protecting the health workforce: progress at RC71; September 2021. “Health and care workers in our Region have been critical in providing quality health services to our people, but we are facing a shortage of skilled workers, and for those who join the workforce, conditions are challenging … Our hope is for the health and care profession to become the dream career for young graduates. For that to happen, we need to up our investment and create working conditions that support the well-being of health workers,” Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Director of the Division of Country Health Policies at WHO/Europe; https://www.euro.who.int/en/about-us/governance/regional-committee-for-europe/71st-session/news/news/2021/09/investing-in-and-protecting-the-health-workforce-progress-at-rc71?utm_source=WHO%2FEurope+mailing+list&utm_campaign=94e96cf317-News_highlights_January_2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60241f4736-94e96cf317-110538917

 

Nuffield Trust research on migrant nurses in the England NHS:

Recruitment of nurses from overseas, Report, October 2021; https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/files/2021-10/recruitment-of-nurses-report-web.pdf

Return on investment of overseas nurse recruitment: lessons for the NHS, October 2021; https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/files/2021-10/1633336126_recruitment-of-nurses-lessons-briefing-web.pdf

Recruitment of nurses from overseas: exploring the factors affecting levels of international recruitment, October 2021; https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/files/2021-10/recruitment-of-nurses-drivers-web.pdf

 

The EUPHA-HWR section contributes to the WHO Year of the Health and Care Workers 2021: Protect. Invest. Together; https://www.who.int/campaigns/annual-theme/year-of-health-and-care-workers-2021

 

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Feel free to forward this Newsletter to your colleagues and friends, who might be interested in health workforce research and in joining the EUPHA Health Workforce Research section. New members are warmly welcome! Please sign up; https://eupha.org/health-workforce-research. The next Newsletter is scheduled for 31 December 2021. Please send your notices, conferences, new publications and other relevant information until 20 December 2021 (Kuhlmann.ellen@mh-hannover.de).

Ellen Kuhlmann

EUPHA HWR section President

https://eupha.org/health-workforce-research

Best regards,
Ellen Kuhlmann
EUPHA-HWR section President

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