Hong Kong has one of the highest densities of migrant domestic workers in the world – 336,600, mainly women, make up 4.4% of the city's population and 10% of the workforce, providing cheap care for children and elderly people.
Ever wonder which careers out there in the workforce provide the most tension, fear and stress?
We all believed, however, that such a conversation would integrate rather than divide the workforce, providing oxygen for other important discussions.
The federal government gave the states lump sums of money, known as block grants, to create programs that would prepare, prompt and push poor single mothers accustomed to living on welfare into the workforce, providing job training, resume-writing tutorials and subsidized child care.
Demographic changes have a substantial effect both on the demand for services and on the workforce providing them.
A recent report on health in Europe concluded that the workforce providing care for older people should be expanded and that health workers should be trained appropriately [ 3].
The majority of caregivers who are employed are women, and their participation in the workforce provides both social and financial support to their unpaid caregiving role, although the latter is linked with reduced mental and physical health [ 5].
A Markov-population model can provide a valid projection of the future workforce, provided that the error present in the projection is small and quantifiable, i.e. the inflow and outflow parameters are known with certainty.
Members of the International Pharmaceutical Federation working group on the pharmacy workforce provided country-specific literature on Canada and the United States of America.
In some sites, the ICDP workforce provided health services with information about other services to which they could confidently refer Indigenous patients.
