The Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting: Results of a European programme to improve health workforce policies

Health Policy

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 87-93

  Kroezen, Marieke ^a   Van Hoegaerden, Michel ^a,b   Batenburg, Ronald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Federal Service of Health   (Belgium)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Europe; European policy; Health; Health human resources; Health workforce; Planning; professionals

Indexed keywords

EUROPE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; JOINT; SAMPLE SIZE; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PROCEDURES;

EUROPE; FORECASTING; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS;

EID: 85037580725     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.12.002     Document Type: Article

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