Barrow Labour MP John Woodcock has released his own video challenging Brand's comments, where he urged him to "come to Barrow and meet some of this workforce" instead of having a debate over YouTube.
To prepare future healthcare professionals for their role in the 21st century as members of this workforce, awareness of global health is essential, but few studies have explored student perspectives on such education.
Factories producing energy-saving products, construction companies erecting renewable energy systems, scientists working to develop new nuclear power, mechanics maintaining hybrid engines and people installing insulation in homes: this is the workforce of the future.
The negative effect of increasing obesity rates on productivity of this workforce surpassed that of smoking as early as 1987.
Because of the mismanagement of this workforce and the lack of care taken of them, the current conflict between the government and the workforce could and should have been predicted.
Knowledge of the inherent activity of this workforce and the amount of time spent on different workflow functions provides a robust evidence-based resource for policy development concerning interprofessional service approaches.
This mobile workforce of telecommuting individuals applies to anyone who works outside the office: sales reps and managers, construction workers, plumbers, and so on and so forth.
Moreover, this estimated workforce of doctors, nurses and allied health workers in Sub-Saharan Africa constitutes 1.3% of the world's health workforce, while Africa suffers from 25% of the world's burden of disease [ 2].
The cost of mobilizing this 'shadow workforce' of physicians, either in a long-term capacity or to respond to an acute health emergency (e.g. a bioterrorist attack, pandemic, or natural disaster), is likely to be significantly less than that of expanding medical school class sizes and residency training slots.
