According to the latest employment report for July, the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%, its highest level since October 2021. The labor force participation rate and employment to population ratio for ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a periodic series of Health Affairs Blog posts on health workforce issues by Edward Salsberg. Mr. Salsberg has spent over 30 years studying the health workforce, ...

The majority of health systems have likely engaged in workforce planning, alignment strategy development, or both in the last few years. But how many have conducted these two processes simultaneously?

International commitments on climate change imply bold actions to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Among them, switching energy production and industrial processes to cleaner sources ...

An organization’s workforce plan is a huge roadmap that should set it up for success, covering several years and every aspect of the business. For many, “workforce planning” means focusing on managing ...

The critical nursing shortage in the United States is going to get worse — much worse — according to results of a comprehensive National Council of State Boards of Nursing and National Forum of State ...

Economic variables also play a central role. Rising GDP per capita increases healthcare utilization rates as households are ...