Intraprofessional cultural competence in nursing regulation: A critical content analysis of standards and codes in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

There is a global shortage of nurses, leading many countries to recruit internationally qualified nurses (IQNs) to fill the gap. However, IQNs encounter challenges in integrating into their new professional environment, particularly in their interactions with locally qualified nurses (LQNs). Intraprofessional cultural competence (IPCC), defined as 'a set of congruent behaviours and attitudes that enable professionals to work respectfully and effectively in cross-cultural situations', may be a strategy to address these challenges.

Quantitative analysis on dental utilisation in culturally and linguistically diverse mothers.

Background: Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) mothers are influential in children's behaviours, yet little is known about this population. Furthermore, insufficient quantitative and context-based studies are available with CALD mothers and their access to oral health care. To address this gap, the study investigates oral health behaviours, psychological factors and remoteness area with dental utilisation in CALD mothers, within the NSW context.

Design, delivery and effectiveness of health practitioner regulation systems: an integrative review.

Background: Health practitioner regulation (HPR) systems are increasingly recognized as playing an important role in supporting health workforce availability, accessibility, quality, and sustainability, while promoting patient safety. This review aimed to identify evidence on the design, delivery and effectiveness of HPR to inform policy decisions.

Methods: We conducted an integrative analysis of literature published between 2010 and 2021.

Integrating competency analysis into national rehabilitation workforce evaluation: a case study.

Background: Establishing a workforce capable of meeting population needs is contingent on evaluation that can inform sound policy and planning. Health workforce evaluation has traditionally relied on health labour market analysis and workload estimations. To date, competency analysis has not been included in national health workforce evaluation, despite that fact that the findings may go far in guiding decisions around workforce composition, optimisation and education and training.

Dental hesitancy: a qualitative study of culturally and linguistically diverse mothers.

Background: Oral healthcare is paramount and inextricably linked to well-being. Yet, the evidence indicates that culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrant communities have unequal access to mainstream dental services due to several barriers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the oral healthcare experiences, attitudes and barriers to oral healthcare utilisation in CALD mothers.

Dental diaspora: oral health care attitudes and experiences in culturally and linguistically diverse mothers in Australia.

Background: Globally oral health care is unequally accessible or utilised within culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrant communities. Yet much remains unknown about CALD mothers and their oral healthcare experiences in Australia. Hence, this paper explores the oral health care attitudes and experiences of CALD mothers within the Australian context with the broader objective to reduce oral health inequalities.

Improving the quality of long-term care services in workforce dimension: expert views from Australia and South Korea.

Background: The long-term care workforce is an essential factor in the provision of qualified long-term care services. Identifying workforce issues can help developing countries in East Asia and the Pacific prepare for the increase in the older population. Their experiences can be used as lessons for other countries.

Barriers and facilitators to dental care among culturally and linguistically diverse carers: A mixed-methods systematic review.

Objectives: Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities experience widespread inequalities in dental care utilization. While, several studies have reported factors contributing to such inequalities, a synthesis of evidence is lacking for CALD carers. This review examined the barriers and facilitators to dental care utilization among CALD carers.

The Future Health Workforce: Integrated Solutions and Models of Care.

The health workforce is a vital aspect of health systems, both essential in improving patient and population health outcomes and in addressing contemporary challenges such as universal health coverage (UHC) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) [...

Towards more effective health workforce governance: The case of overseas-trained doctors.

Objective: The over-reliance on overseas-trained doctors remains a pressing problem in a handful of countries. This study aimed to explore the experience of rural and remote overseas-trained doctors as regards to their migration, recruitment and ongoing support in Australia as the basis for more effective health workforce governance.

Design: Qualitative interviews were undertaken with overseas-trained doctors in rural and remote Australia.

The International Classification of Health Interventions: an 'epistemic hub' for use in public health.

The current lack of a common basis for collecting data on population-level prevention and health promotion interventions causes public health to be relatively invisible within broader health systems, making it vulnerable to funding cuts when there is pressure to reduce spending. Further, the inconsistent use of terms for describing interventions hinders knowledge translation and building an evidence base for public health practice and policy. The International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI), being developed by the World Health Organization, is a standard statistical classification for interventions across the full scope of health systems.

Development and Validation of the WHO Rehabilitation Competency Framework: A Mixed Methods Study.

Objectives: To identify the competencies, behaviors, activities, and tasks required by the rehabilitation workforce, and their core values and beliefs, and to validate these among rehabilitation professionals and service users.

Design: Mixed methods study, involving a content analysis of rehabilitation-related competency frameworks, a modified Delphi study, and a consultation-based questionnaire of service users.

Setting: Desk-based research.

Barriers and facilitators to oral health care utilization in culturally and linguistically diverse mothers: a mixed methods systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of the review is to synthesize existing literature examining the barriers and facilitators to preventive oral health care utilization experienced by culturally and linguistically diverse mothers.

Introduction: Preventive oral health care in the absence of pain is underutilized in culturally and linguistically diverse groups. Culturally and linguistically diverse mothers experience oral health care utilization barriers compared to their host country counterparts.

An Indigenous cultural competence model for dentistry education.

Reorientation of education for health professionals is necessary to support future health workforce in meeting population needs. Dental graduates must be competent to effectively communicate with patients, their families and other health professionals involved in their care, regardless of social or cultural background. Indigenous people in Australia experience significant oral health disparities compared to non-Indigenous Australians.

Proposing a re-conceptualisation of competency framework terminology for health: a scoping review.

Background: Competency frameworks are being taken up by a growing number of sectors and for a broad range of applications. However, the topic of competency frameworks is characterised by conceptual ambiguity, misunderstanding and debate. Lack of consistency in the conceptualisation and use of key terminology creates a barrier to research and development, consensus, communication and collaboration, limiting the potential that competency frameworks have to deal with real workforce challenges.

A strife of interests: A qualitative study on the challenges facing oral health workforce policy and planning.

Oral health workforce policy has often lacked systematic connections with broader health policy, and system-based reforms that would enable more effective responses to future needs of the population. The aim of the study was to better understand challenges facing oral health workforce policy and planning and identify potential solutions. In-depth interviews of 23 senior oral health leaders and/or health policy experts from 15 countries were conducted in 2016-17.

Assessment of patient safety culture in primary health care in Muscat, Oman: a questionnaire -based survey.

Background: Patient safety is a universal issue which affects countries at all stages of health system development. Patient safety research in primary care reveals that globally millions of people suffer disabilities, injuries, or death due to unsafe medical practices. This study aims to explore the understanding of frontline primary health care professionals regarding patient safety culture in health care facilities in Oman.

Students Don't Know What They Don't Know: Dental and Oral Health Students' Perspectives on Developing Cultural Competence Regarding Indigenous Peoples.

Indigenous Australians experience poorer oral health than non-Indigenous Australians despite closing-the-gap initiatives. Cultural competence is an important skill in the delivery of oral health care. The need for academic institutions to incorporate Indigenous culture more widely into their curricula to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous peoples and to increase cultural competence for all students has been recognized.

Strengthening Indigenous cultural competence in dentistry and oral health education: Academic perspectives.

Introduction: Indigenous Australians continue to experience significant oral health disparities, despite numerous closing-the-gap initiatives. Higher education institutions and accrediting bodies recognise the need to incorporate Indigenous culture more widely into dentistry curricula to address these inequalities. This study aimed to define and explore current Indigenous cultural competence curricula, identify enablers and barriers for integration of Indigenous cultural competence curricula and ascertain innovative strategies to aid students in becoming culturally competent upon graduation, from academics' perspectives.

Epistemic layers in development planning: A case study of the health sector in the Gunungkidul District, Indonesia.

The paper analyses how knowledge systems and epistemic cultures contribute to development planning through conduct of a microqualitative sociological case study of the health sector in Indonesia. The data were attained from 37 in-depth interviews and a stakeholder engagement workshop conducted in Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta, complemented with documentary media analysis. Our findings show that centralisation continues to exist in the development planning practice within the decentralisation era.

Case Study: Degree of Integration of Disability Rights Into Allied Health Professional Education.

Persons with disabilities are vulnerable to rights violations when accessing health care, including allied health care. However, the commitment of allied health professional education to disability rights has not been researched. This study is the first to investigate the extent to which disability rights principles are integrated into allied health competencies and education.

Patient safety and safety culture in primary health care: a systematic review.

Background: Patient safety in primary care is an emerging field of research with a growing evidence base in western countries but little has been explored in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC) including the Sultanate of Oman. This study aimed to review the literature on the safety culture and patient safety measures used globally to inform the development of safety culture among health care workers in primary care with a particular focus on the Middle East.

Methods: A systematic review of the literature.