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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Crisp, Nigel
• Poulter, Dan
• Gnanapragasam, Sam
• Beardmore, Charlotte
• Fitt, Alistair
• Hollins, Sheila
• Lenaghan, Jo
• Skordis, Jolene
• Ribeiro, Bernie
• Watkins, Mary

Titel

Health workers as agents of change and curators of knowledge

Ist Teil von

• The Lancet (British edition), 2022-08, Vol.400 (10350), p.417-418

Ort / Verlag

London: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There are critical shortages of health workers globally, with an estimated 43 million additional workers needed to achieve universal health coverage.1 The health workforce is unevenly distributed between and within countries, many health workers are exhausted and demoralised, and there are problems with recruitment and retention.2 Increasing demand for health services and growing financial pressures on populations and health systems exacerbate these problems. Global and national innovative action is needed to deal with these challenges and support and sustain the health workforce.We, as a group of UK parliamentarians and expert advisers, undertook a review of the future roles of health workers globally, looking forwards 15–20 years. Our findings are published in a new report, Probable Futures and Radical Possibilities: an Exploration of the Future Roles of Health Workers Globally, by the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health (APPG).3 The report is based on discussions with people around the world that revealed much common thinking about probable futures. These foresee a future of blended virtual and in-person health-care services, where health workers are proficient in using data and technology, co-create care with patients and families, and have different expectations of their work and work–life balance. We also identified some radical possibilities for the future, including the scaling up of professional education through global partnerships, reforming medical education processes, and new ways of working in self-organising and self-employed teams outside traditional health organisations.