Italy has one of the lowest birth rates in the world and one of the most generous state pension schemes an unsustainable combination that leaves an ever diminishing workforce paying for an ever rising number of pensioners.
These challenges are well documented and include: an increasing demand for services [ 1, 2], a growing prevalence of chronic disease [ 3, 4], escalating service costs [ 5], diminishing workforce availability [ 6- 8], and changing community expectations [ 7, 9].
2 Moreover, informal economies, unemployment, self-employment, and aging populations with diminishing workforces may limit the available revenue from social insurance contributions and tax-based funding.
The days before, a breakout of gastric flu had seriously diminished the workforce on the ward and the staff seemed exhausted.
Mendeleev said the company has slowly been diminishing its workforce and operation in Russia and it may even look into obtaining ingredients elsewhere as the political climate in Russia worsens, though he did not outline specific plans in that regard.
A combination of such measures, together with the planned increase in the training capacity of the country's nursing schools, could even reverse the trend of a diminishing health workforce.
We argue that the trend of a diminishing nursing workforce in Swaziland can be reversed if as many as possible of the planned policy initiatives are swiftly and jointly implemented.
This study explores the experiences of internationally educated nurses using English as a second language, recruited by advanced economies to supplement diminishing local workforces, as they progress from language learning programs to clinical settings.
We have sought half of it upfront in 2017-18, to kickstart change, and assurances that its impact won't be diminished by raids on workforce, research and other budgets.
Later, when such stunted children enter the workforce, their diminished physical and cognitive development can reduce their earning capacity by as much as 22 per cent.
