Linda Mans

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WHO’s Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 identified a projected shortfall of 18 million health workers by 2030, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. The need for investment was re-enforced by the 2016 report and recommendations of the UN High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. This explor...

Since its publication in 2019, the book "Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future", written by George R. Lueddeke, has proven to be timely and useful in these uncertain and tense ("rattling" – Lueddeke’s word) times we are experiencing. Indeed, we have had (and still are experiencing) the COVID-19 pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine...

Sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 are geared toward sustainable development through various pathways, one being reducing inequality as covered in SDG 10. Inequalities are a threat to health and wellbeing of populations and a planet Earth in which we live. This rapid review aims to identify key issues that are likely to exacerbate...

The Committee on The Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) organised the Pre-sessional Working Group for the 81st session On behalf of the Dutch CEDAW Network the authors have compiled the shadow report ‘Women’s Rights beyond Gender Neutrality: in Words and in Action’. The report reflects the concerns and questions of civil society re...

This independent review report was commissioned by WHO in November 2020, and conducted by the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (Remco van de Pas, Linda Mans, Percy Mahlathi, and Delphin Kolie). It is aimed at Member States, development partners, key stakeholders, international financing institutions, and all other constituencies with a broad...

The free movement of people is a cornerstone of an open and integrated Europe. Yet the labor migration of Europeans from lower-income countries in southern and eastern Europe to higher-income countries in northern and western Europe has had significant impact on the workforce— including the loss of skilled health professionals in their most product...

This paper is part of 'The EU Mutual Learning Programme in Gender Equality' and assesses if the Netherlands uses gender budgeting in its policies, especially in relation to its use of the European Structural Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). An in-depth evaluation of the use of ESF for Active Inclusion in the Netherlands...

Discussion paper for the Stakeholder’s Dialogue on International Health Worker Migration and the Global Skills Partnerships, 9 December, Marrakesh. Morocco. A side-event of the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Comments on this version can be sent to r.vandepas@maastrichtunivers...

Presentation analysing the concept of Global Skills Partnerships and its potential impact on Health Workforce Migration. Presented during the side -event: Health Worker Migration & Global Skills Partnerships: A Stakeholder’s Dialogue, organized by Public Services International, European Federation of Public Service Unions, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung,...

BULLETIN of the NETHERLANDS SOCIETY for TROPICAL MEDICINE and INTERNATIONAL HEALTH: With changing lifestyles and ageing populations, chronic diseases have become increasingly common. Bearing this in mind, it has been predicted that by the year 2030, there will be a demand for 40 million new jobs in healthcare worldwide, most of these in high-income...

Online: http://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org Launched in 2009, the International Health Policies Network (IHP Network) is an initiative of the Health Policy Unit at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM). BLOG: This summer I took up IHP’s suggestion and read Paul Mason’s ‘PostCapitalism: a Guide to Our Future’. That triggered my i...

Investing in a sustainable health workforce requires long-term action at country and international levels as part of an intersectoral effort. Social third sector/civil society can have an active role as change agents (see case studies 18, 19 and 20). This section showcases the approach of nine civil society organizations (CSOs) and how they have be...

Online: http://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org Launched in 2009, the International Health Policies Network (IHP Network) is an initiative of the Health Policy Unit at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM). BLOG: At the launch of the fifth Global Health Watch a short time ago in Brussels, planetary health and justice were very much i...

The fourth Global Forum on Human Resources (HRH) for Health was held in Ireland November 2017. Its Dublin declaration mentions that strategic investments in the health workforce could contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth and are an imperative to shared prosperity. What is remarkable about the investment frame for health workforce developm...

Background: Following the adoption of the World Health Organization’s Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (WHO Code), eight civil society organizations implemented the European Union (EU) funded project “Health Workers for All and All for Health Workers” (2013–2016). Investing in a sustainable health workfor...

Background: The relevance and effectiveness of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Personnel will be reviewed by the World Health Assembly in 2015. The origins of the Code of Practice and the global health diplomacy process before and after its adoption are analyzed herein. Methods and results: Case studies from t...

Na de kanteling van welvaartstaat naar participatiesamenleving doet het fenomeen van de inwonende buitenlandse zorgverlener zijn intrede: veelal vrouwen uit Oost-Europa die voor een salaris plus kost en inwoning zorg of huishoudelijke ondersteuning of beide leveren. Hier kleven zowel voor- als nadelen aan. Daarom pleiten Amy Davies en Linda Mans vo...

‘Health workers for all and all for health workers’ (HW4All) is a civil society-led advocacy initiative involving organizations in Belgium, the UK, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain and the Netherlands. Through advocacy and campaigning, it contributes from within Europe to the development of a sustainable health workforce worldwide. With the s...

Vrouwenrechten in Nederland anno 2010; De conclusies van het VN-Comité Hoe staat het met de vrouwenrechten in Nederland anno 2010? Wat gaat er goed, wat moet beter-bijvoorbeeld wat betreft politiek en openbaar bestuur, werk en inkomen, onderwijs, gezondheid, nationaliteit, huwelijk en familieleven? Het VN-Vrouwenverdrag beschrijft wat discriminat...

The incorporation of a gender perspective in medical education aims toward better health, gender equity, and a better health care for both men and women. In this article, participants’ responses to a Dutch gender awareness‐raising project in medical education are discussed. Eighteen semi‐structured interviews were held with education directors and...

Shadow report by Dutch NGOs; an examination of the Fifth Report by the Government of the Netherlands on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 2005-2008 This shadow report on “the 5th Report from the Netherlands about the Implementation of the UN-Women’s Convention, period 2...

Het oktobernummer van het Maandblad Geestelijke Volksgezondheid 2009 publiceerde een artikel van Ingrid Baart en mijzelf over 'Patiëntenparticipatie in genomicsonderzoek'. In het stuk beschrijven we dat, anders dan sommige wetenschappers van GROUP (Genetic Risk and Outcome of Psychosis) in eerste instantie vermoedden, een dialoog tussen patiënten e...

Studies of anthropology, development studies, social and cultural geography and international relations have provided an academic basis for an understanding of, and work in the field of, development cooperation. In that field ‘gender and development’ became a recognised sub-discipline and ‘gender’ gained official status in the mainstream developmen...

The recently published report Gewoon doen. Acceptatie van homoseksualiteit in Neder-land ('Acceptance of homosexuality in the Netherlands') (Keuzenkamp et al. 2006) presented a detailed picture of the acceptance of homosexuality among the Dutch population. Following on from this broad study on the acceptance of homosexuality by the public and two e...

Taylor and Francis Ltd CGEE_A_180451.sgm 10.1080/09540250600805070 Gender and Education 0954-0253 (print)/1360-0516 (online) Original Article 2006 Taylor & Francis 18 4 000000July 2006 Medical education has not taken on board the growing awareness of sex and gender differences. A nation-wide project to incorporate sex and gender in medical educatio...

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Army (Krijgsmacht) The majority (90%) of defence personnel believe that gays and lesbians should be free to live their own life as they wish. A longitudinal comparison (Stoppelenburg and Feenstra, 1999) and a comparison with the Dutch population at large (Keuzenkamp et al. 2006) produced virtually the same results. Almost one in three defence perso...

In 1998, gaps were found to exist in the basic medical curriculum of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre regarding health-related gender differences in terms of biological, psychological and social factors. After screening the curriculum for language, content and context, adjustments aimed at incorporating gender issues were proposed. Th...

Inleiding: In het Nijmeegse basiscurriculum geneeskunde bestonden in 1998 lacunes op het gebied van biologische, psychische en sociale factoren bij gezondheidsverschillen tussen de seksen. Na screening op taal, inhoud en context werden aanpassingen voor de integratie van de factor sekse voorgesteld, waarvan de evaluatie in dit artikel wordt beschr...

This paper contains the findings of an investigation among high school girls in Manenberg, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Answers are obtained to questions of what violence against adolescent girls in South Africa is according to the girls themselves, what they believe that the possible causes are leading to gender based violence as well as t...