Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD
@jnwadiuko.bsky.social
Nigerian, physician, health economist, glucophile. AP Hospital Medicine @Penn. Immigration, global health, prisons
Aligning education, public budgets and migration policy with population health needs is essential for universal health coverage.
Read the full open access article here:
gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
#globalhealth #healthworkforce
Read the full open access article here:
gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
#globalhealth #healthworkforce
Health worker unemployment in countries with critical health worker shortages: a rapid synthesis of evidence from 33 countries
Introduction There have been increasing concerns about the overproduction of the health workforce in low- and middle-income countries, leading to unemployment, even as recent literature and country re...
gh.bmj.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Aligning education, public budgets and migration policy with population health needs is essential for universal health coverage.
Read the full open access article here:
gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
#globalhealth #healthworkforce
Read the full open access article here:
gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
#globalhealth #healthworkforce
What is driving this paradox of shortages +unemployment?
• Misalignment between training and funded posts
• Hiring freezes and fiscal constraints
• Informal and volunteer work that masks “true” unemployment
• Protests and outward migration as responses to blocked careers
• Misalignment between training and funded posts
• Hiring freezes and fiscal constraints
• Informal and volunteer work that masks “true” unemployment
• Protests and outward migration as responses to blocked careers
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What is driving this paradox of shortages +unemployment?
• Misalignment between training and funded posts
• Hiring freezes and fiscal constraints
• Informal and volunteer work that masks “true” unemployment
• Protests and outward migration as responses to blocked careers
• Misalignment between training and funded posts
• Hiring freezes and fiscal constraints
• Informal and volunteer work that masks “true” unemployment
• Protests and outward migration as responses to blocked careers
This rapid review builds on prior alarms that have been raised over the past decade and includes data from 33 countries. Across reporting countries, the unemployment rate may be as high as 26.8% for physicians and 39.7% for nurses &midwives (!). Trends probably worsened after the pandemic.
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This rapid review builds on prior alarms that have been raised over the past decade and includes data from 33 countries. Across reporting countries, the unemployment rate may be as high as 26.8% for physicians and 39.7% for nurses &midwives (!). Trends probably worsened after the pandemic.
Finishing Stacy Abrams' latest novel now which delves into these exact issues:
September 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Finishing Stacy Abrams' latest novel now which delves into these exact issues: