births attended by health staff

participate in health staff training | participate in healthcare personnel training | participate in health personnel training | participate in training staff in the health sector

awareness measures for health care personnel

Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status

health, safety and environment personnel [ health, safety and environmental personnel | HSE personnel | HSE-personnel ]

health professional [ health care professional | health care practitioner | health practitioner | medical professional ]

ensuring aquaculture personnel health and safety | ensuring compliance with aquaculture health and safety regulations | ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety | ensure compliance with health and safety regulations in aquaculture

assisting employee health programmes | support medical staff | assist employee health programmes | assist in employee health programmes

The Green Paper aims to describe as precisely as possible the challenges faced by the EU health workforce which are common to all Member States: the demography issue (ageing global population and ageing health workforce), which means that there are insufficient numbers of younger people coming through the system to replace those who leave; the diversity of the health workforce; the weak attractiveness of the wide variety of healthcare and public health related jobs to new generations; the migration of health professionals in and out of the EU; the unequal mobility within the EU – and in particular the movement of some health professi ...[+++]onals from poorer to richer countries within the EU, as well as the health brain drain from Third countries.

Influencing factors and possible areas for action: Assessing levels of expenditure on the health workforce Ensuring better working conditions for health workers, Increasing staff motivation and morale Considering recruitment and training campaigns, in particular to take advantage of the growth in the proportion of over-55s in the workplace and those who no longer have family commitments Organising chronic disease management practices and long-term care provision closer to home or in a community setting Providing for a more effective deployment of the available health workforce Considering "return to practice" campaigns to attract back th ...[+++]ose who have left the health workforce Promoting more social and ethnic diversity in recruitment Raising awareness in schools large range of careers in the health and care sectors |

Influencing factors and possible areas for action: Strengthening capacity for screening, health promotion and disease prevention Collecting better information about actual and potential population health needs in order to plan the future development of the public health workforce Promoting scientific vocations in schools by highlighting career options in lesser known public health jobs (biologists, epidemiologists, etc.) Giving the Agency for Safety and Health at Work (OSHA) more visibility in the Member States by publicising its existence directly at workplaces Promoting the work of occupational health physicians and giving incentives t ...[+++]o doctors to join this area |

D. whereas this epidemic is unpredictably and constantly evolving owing to the lack of isolation facilities and skilled medical workers, while foreign medical workers have difficulties in winning the trust of the populations concerned; whereas international support has to address all key aspects of the epidemic, from community education and mobilisation, improving the quality and strength of health systems, training of personnel and medical supportive care, to coordinated epidemiological control, tracing and surveillance in order to effectively control the outbreak; recalls that the introduction of a case into an unaffected country rem ...[+++]ains a risk for as long as cases are reported in any country;