The Pediatrician Workforce in the United States and China.

From 2019 to 2022, the For Our Children project gathered a team of Chinese and American pediatricians to explore the readiness of the pediatric workforce in each country to address pressing child health concerns. The teams compared existing data on child health outcomes, the pediatric workforce, and education and combined qualitative and quantitative comparisons centered on themes of effective health care delivery outlined in the World Health Organization Workforce 2030 Report. This article describes key findings about pediatric workload, career satisfaction, and systems to assure competency.

The association of state-level drug and opioid overdose deaths with the capacity of behavioural health professionals in the United States.

As behavioural health occupations have diversified, more specialists such as social workers and counsellors are involved in providing substance use disorder treatment services. This study examined the association between changes in the number of different types of behavioural health professionals and changes in drug and opioid overdose deaths in the United States. Using publicly available state-level data from 2008 to 2017, we constructed multivariate linear regression models with state- and year fixed-effects to examine the effect of changes in the number of different types of behavioural health professionals (i.

Associations Between Parental Depression, Self-efficacy, and Early Childhood Development in Malnourished Haitian Children.

. Haiti lacks early childhood development data and guidelines in malnourished populations. Literature shows that developmental interventions are crucial for improving developmental outcomes malnourished children.

Identification of Digital Health Priorities for Palliative Care Research: Modified Delphi Study.

Background: Developments in digital health have the potential to transform the delivery of health and social care to help citizens manage their health. Currently, there is a lack of consensus about digital health research priorities in palliative care and a lack of theories about how these technologies might improve care outcomes. Therefore, it is important for health care leaders to identify innovations to ensure that an increasingly frail population has appropriate access to palliative care services.

Video hospice consultation in COVID-19: professional and patient evaluations.

Background: Providing care for our patients during the COVID-19 pandemic required a rapid shift to video consultations (VCs). A service evaluation was performed to capture hospice professionals' (HPs) and patients' experiences of VC.

Methods: Online or postal surveys were sent to HPs and patients, who had participated in VC between March and July 2020, focusing on their experience and satisfaction with the service.