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Global Health Workforce Issues

Global Health Workforce Issues is a research topic within Emergency Medical Services. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 18.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and solutions related to the rural health workforce, focusing on issues such as geographical imbalances, physician and nurse migration, retention strategies, recruitment programs, and the impact of these factors on global health and health policy. The research delves into the complexities of rural healthcare delivery, workforce shortages, and the implications for primary care in underserved areas.

  • Rural Health
  • Health Workforce
  • Physician Migration
  • Nurse Migration
  • Retention Strategies
  • Geographical Imbalances
  • Health Policy
  • Recruitment Programs
  • Global Health
  • Primary Care Physicians
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
18.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+28%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Global Health Workforce Issues research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.4k and 691 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 2.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 691 works
  3. 3 Australia 550 works
  4. 4 Canada 422 works
  5. 5 ?? 149 works
  6. 6 India 144 works
  7. 7 South Africa 118 works
  8. 8 Japan 103 works
  9. 9 China 99 works
  10. 10 New Zealand 96 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 50.0%United Kingdom: 14.6%Australia: 11.6%Canada: 8.9%6 others listed: 15.0%50%largest
United States2,368 · 50.0%United Kingdom691 · 14.6%Australia550 · 11.6%Canada422 · 8.9%6 others listed709 · 15.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Global Health Workforce Issues research?

By volume in 2022–2025, BMJ Group (United Kingdom) publishes the most Global Health Workforce Issues research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 BMJ Group (United Kingdom)?? 86 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 60 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 33 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 31 works
  5. 5 University of MichiganUnited States 30 works
  6. 6 The University of QueenslandAustralia 26 works
  7. 7 University of British ColumbiaCanada 25 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 25 works
  9. 9 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 24 works

Where is Global Health Workforce Issues research done?

The largest centres of Global Health Workforce Issues research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and London (??). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London, Sale and Dunedin.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 188 works
  2. 2 Melbourne Australia 100 works
  3. 3 New York United States 96 works
  4. 4 London ?? 89 works
  5. 5 Boston United States 87 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C. United States 85 works
  7. 7 Toronto Canada 81 works
  8. 8 Brisbane Australia 69 works
  9. 9 Philadelphia United States 64 works
  10. 10 Chapel Hill United States 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London88.7 works91×
  2. Sale21.2 works91×
  3. DunedinNZ · 24.4 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Health Workforce Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global Health Workforce Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Central Queensland University and Flinders University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 27.17%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: 11, 44.0%Central Queensland University: 10, 38.6%Flinders University: 14, 30.4%James Cook University: 17, 20.5%La Trobe University: 18, 23.7%University of Otago: 21, 17.5%Deakin University: 16, 30.2%Harvard University: 31, 33.9%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 60, 10.9%Charles Sturt University: 15, 22.0%London School of Hyg…Central Queensland U…Flinders UniversityJames Cook University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 73.044.0%12.1×11 +54.1%
2 Central Queensland UniversityAustralia 63.238.6%16.7×10 +57.8%
3 Flinders UniversityAustralia 57.030.4%10.3×14 +16.3%
4 James Cook UniversityAustralia 55.920.5%21.3×17 +74.4%
5 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 54.023.7%10.3×18 +9.1%
6 University of OtagoNew Zealand 53.317.5%12.5×21 +44.7%
7 Deakin UniversityAustralia 53.130.2%6.1×16 +105.2%
8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 53.033.9%4.3×31 +53.3%
9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 49.710.9%6.0×60 +160.9%
10 Charles Sturt UniversityAustralia 49.322.0%18.5×15 -1.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Global Health Workforce Issues research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 28% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Global Health Workforce Issues.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.