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About: Workforce is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 32140 publications have been published within this topic receiving 449850 citations. The topic is also known as: labour force & labor force.


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TL;DR: An ADEA President's Commission of national experts to explore the roles and responsibilities of academic dental institutions in improving the oral health status of all Americans has issued this report and made a variety of policy recommendations.
Abstract: Academic dental institutions are the fundamental underpinning of the nation's oral health. Education, research, and patient care are the cornerstones of academic dentistry that form the foundation upon which the dental profession rises to provide care to the public. The oral health status of Americans has improved dramatically over the past twenty-five to thirty years. In his 2000 report on oral health, the Surgeon General acknowledges the success of the dental profession in improving the oral health status of Americans over the past twenty-five years, but he also juxtaposes this success to profound and consequential disparities in the oral health of Americans. In 2002, the American Dental Education Association brought together an ADEA President's Commission of national experts to explore the roles and responsibilities of academic dental institutions in improving the oral health status of all Americans. They have issued this report and made a variety of policy recommendations, including a Statement of Position, to the 2003 ADEA House of Delegates. The commission's work will help guide ADEA in such areas as: identifying barriers to oral health care, providing guiding principles for academic dental institutions, anticipating workforce needs, and improving access through a diverse workforce and the types of oral health providers, including full utilization of allied dental professionals and collaborations with colleagues from medicine.

127 citations

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TL;DR: Postgraduate medical training will require a substantial injection of resources to expand opportunities for clinical training, without compromising quality, and patterns of career choice by medical graduates and workforce supply levels must be monitored.
Abstract: •The number of domestic graduates from Australian medical schools is set to increase by 81% in 7 years, from 1348 in 2005 to 2442 by 2012. • Including international students, medical school graduates will total almost 3000 by 2012. • Planning must begin now to ensure that the significant flow-on effects of these increases are managed effectively. • Most urgently, postgraduate medical training will require a substantial injection of resources to expand opportunities for clinical training, without compromising quality. • Patterns of career choice by medical graduates and workforce supply levels must be monitored to ensure responsiveness to the effects of substantially larger, and more diverse, graduate cohorts.

127 citations

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TL;DR: Identification of injury trends and subsequent analytical research efforts designed to ascertain factors associated with injury among older construction workers are needed for employers to effectively manage a health and safety program that addresses the needs of the aging worker.
Abstract: The relatively large birth cohort between 1946 and 1964, combined with the economic recession in the first decade of the 21st century, have led to an increase in the proportion of older workers in the US workplace. Understanding the health and safety needs of an aging workforce will be critical, especially in the construction industry, where physical job demands are high. This paper reviews the epidemiologic literature on the impact of age on injury among workers in the construction industry in terms of cause, type, and cost. PubMed was searched by using the following terms: older workers, construction, construction industry, injury, and age. The available studies reported that, among the construction industry workforce, older age at injury was related to higher injury costs but not to number of injuries. The higher injury costs associated with worker age are likely due in part to the severity of the injuries sustained by older workers. Identification of injury trends and subsequent analytical research efforts designed to ascertain factors associated with injury among older construction workers are needed for employers to effectively manage a health and safety program that addresses the needs of the aging worker. Language: en

127 citations

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TL;DR: A recent study carried out in two social service departments in the north-west of England as mentioned in this paper found that stress is the biggest single factor affecting their decision to leave, and that staff working with children and families reported the highest levels of absenteeism, poorest well-being and highest level of organizational constraints.
Abstract: The public sector is facing an impending shortage of staff, because young people no longer want to work in it and nearly a third of its workforce is over 50 years of age. Staff working within the public sector report that stress is the biggest single factor affecting their decision to leave. This research note reports the findings of a recent study carried out in two social service departments in the north-west of England. The primary aim of the research was to explore work-related stress, using a ‘problem diagnosis tool’ to understand the stressors experienced by social services staff, and to inform the development of interventions aimed at reducing and/or eliminating them. This study used in-depth interviewing to develop a questionnaire incorporating a variety of measures to assess potential stressors and mental well-being. The questionnaire response rate was 33 per cent (n = 1234) and the results demonstrated statistically significant differences between staffing grades. Staff working with children and families reported the highest levels of absenteeism, poorest well-being, and highest level of organizational constraints. Job satisfaction was low compared with established norms for various occupational groups. This grounded research baseline is a crucial step to inform specifically designed and targeted interventions, which can be effectively evaluated from this baseline position.

127 citations

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TL;DR: It has been only relatively recently that concerns of agricultural safety and health have become a major research focus in the United States.
Abstract: Agricultural work is the most prevalent type of employment in the world. In the United States only a few are engaged in creating food and fiber for many. Agriculture includes farming, ranching, fishing, and forestry, and together they carry significant risk for the development of injury or illness. There are numerous special-population issues related to agriculture. Farmers are old and growing older, many workers are children, and migrant and seasonal help, often foreign born, make up a large percentage of the workforce. It has been only relatively recently that concerns of agricultural safety and health have become a major research focus in the United States.

126 citations


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Performance
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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20234,031
20228,033
20212,082
20202,042
20191,856
20181,721