Human Resources for Health in Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-335-22489-0
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

Health service human resources are key determinants of health service performance. The human resource is the largest and most expensive input into health care, yet it can be the most challenging to develop. This book examines some of the major challenges facing health care professions in Europe and the potential responses to these challenges.

The book analyses how the current regulatory processes and practices related to key aspects of the management of the health professions may facilitate or inhibit the development of effective responses to challenges facing health care systems in Europe. The authors document how health care systems in Europe are confronting existing challenges in relation to the health workforce and identify the strategies that are likely to be most effective in optimizing the management of health professionals in the future.

Human Resources for Health in Europe is key reading for health policy makers and postgraduates taking courses in health services management, health policy and health economics. It is also of interest to human resource professionals.

Contributors: Carl Afford, Rita Baeten, James Buchan, Anna Dixon, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir, Elisabeth Kachur, Karl Krajic, Suszy Lessof, Ann Mahon, Alan Maynard, Martin McKee, Ellen Nolte, Anne Marie Rafferty, Charles Shaw, Bonnie Sibbald, Ruth Young.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dubois, Carl-Ardy

Nolte, Ellen

Mckee, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenhausmanagement, Praxismanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Human resources for health in Europe

Analysing trends, opportunities and challenges

Migration of health workers in Europe: policy problem or policy solution?

Changing professional boundaries

Structures and trends in health profession education in Europe

Managing the performance of health professionals

Health care managers as a critical component of the health care workforce

Incentives in health care: the shift in emphasis from the implicit to the explicit

Enhancing working conditions

Reshaping the regulation of the workforce in European health care systems

The challenges of transition in CEE and the NIS of the former USSR

The impact of EU law and policy

Moving forward: building a strategic framework for the development of the health care workforce

Index