Health Workforce Center – Public Health

About the Center

Mission

To provide quality policy-oriented research on human resources for health in Romania and globally.

Vision

Healthcare systems will make evidence-informed policy decisions with regards to the management of their health workforce.

Objectives

To provide data for evidence-informed policy decisions.
To design and implement research on human resources for health.

Staff

MU

Marius Ionuț Ungureanu, MD, PhD

Associate Professor & Department Chair

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Monica Georgiana Brînzac, PhD

Deputy Director

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Projects

Finished

The Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting

Duration: 2013 – 2016

Goal: To move forward on the health workforce planning process and support countries in tackling key challenges. Created a platform for collaboration and exchange between Member States to prepare the future of health workforce planning.

Objectives:

Address lack of consistent terminology in health workforce planning
Address lack of data in health workforce forecasting
Improve model-, demand-based- and future-based planning
Enhance inter-country collaboration
Create platform for exchange between Member States

Coordinator: Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment — Belgium

Funder: Health Programme of the European Union

BBU role: Associated partner, representing Romania

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Finished

Assessment of health professionals' working preferences using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs): A pilot study in Cluj County, Romania

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Academic Output

The future of work in the health sector / International Labour Office, Geneva: ILO, 2019. Working Paper No. 325. Prepared by Marius Ungureanu, Christiane Wiskow, and Delphine Santini.
Recent Trends in International Migration of Doctors, Nurses and Medical Students, OECD Publishing, Paris. Chapter 6: Romania: A growing international medical education hub. Marius Ungureanu, Karolina Socha-Dietrich.
Kuhlmann E, Maier CB, Dussault G, Larsen C, Pavolini E, Ungureanu MI. EU law, policy and health professional mobility. In: Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
Kuhlmann E, Batenburg R, Wismar M, et al. A call for action to establish a research agenda for building a future health workforce in Europe. Health Research Policy and Systems 2018;16:52.
Ungureanu MI, Gheorghe A, Voinea S. Patients are denied care because of corruption in Romania. The Lancet 2017;390:10108.
Paina L, Ungureanu MI, Olsavszky V. Implementing the Code of Practice on International Recruitment in Romania. Human Resources for Health 2016, 14(Suppl 1):22.
Ungureanu MI, Paina L, Olsavszky V. Health Workforce Management in Romania. The Lancet 2015, 386(10009):2139–2140.
Ungureanu MI, Mocean F. What do patients take into account when they choose their dentist? Patient Preference and Adherence 2015, 9:1715–1720.
Cherecheș RM, Ungureanu MI, Sandu P, Rus IA. Defining informal payments in healthcare: A systematic review. Health Policy 2013, 110(2):105–114.
Ungureanu MI, Litan CM, Rus IA, Chereches RM. A Brief Insight into the Study of Informal Health Care Payments in Romania. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences 2013, 39(E):212–219.
Ungureanu MI, Baciu B, Rus IA, Litan CM, Chereches RM. Are informal health care payments confined to public facilities? Evidence from Romania. European Journal of Public Health 2012, 22:137–138.
Cherecheș RM, Ungureanu MI. The saga of the Romanian healthcare reform. The Lancet 2012, 379(9829):e52.
Cherecheș RM, Ungureanu MI, Rus IA, Baba CO. Informal payments in the health care system — research, media and policy. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences 2011, 32(E):5–14.

Marius I Ungureanu, Monica Brînzac, Antonia Papiu, Alina Forray. What does the future hold for family medicine? An analysis of the sustainability of human resources for health policies. Medical Forum Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2020.
Marius I Ungureanu. Destination Romania: trends in the internationalisation of medical education among Romanian medical schools. EHMA Annual Conference, Espoo, Finland, 2019.
Marius I Ungureanu. Internationalisation of health workforce education: the case of medicine in Romania. EUPHA Annual Conference, Marseille, France, 2019.
Marius I Ungureanu. Evaluation of health workforce retention strategies in Romania: challenges and opportunities. EUPHA Annual Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018.
Marius I Ungureanu. Moving the public health workforce forward: how can early career professionals contribute? EUPHA Annual Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018.
Marius I Ungureanu. Health workforce needs in Romania. EUPHA Annual Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017.
Marius I Ungureanu, Ioana A. Duse, Mara P. Timofe, Jonila Gabrani, Antoniya Yanakieva, Elena Bozdog. A qualitative assessment of factors influencing psychiatrists' workplace preferences in Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. EHMA Annual Conference, Porto, Portugal, 2016.
Marius I Ungureanu, Mara P. Timofe, Razvan M. Chereches, Catalin O. Baba, Floarea Mocean. How consistent are dentists and patients when assessing quality of dental care? Results from Romania. EHMA Annual Conference, Porto, Portugal, 2016.
Marius I Ungureanu, Mara P. Timofe, Elena M. Bozdog, Alexandra Bocoș, Răzvan M. Cherecheș. It's not all about money: Exploring health workers' motivation when choosing a workplace. APHA Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 2015.
Marius I Ungureanu, Ligia Paina. Health workforce retention in Romania: a review of recent policies and practices. EHMA Annual Conference, Breda, Netherlands, 2015.
Marius I Ungureanu, Mara Paula Timofe, Florina Gabor Harosa, et al. Are there any pre-requisites for high-quality delivery of dental services? A perspective from Romanian dentists. EHMA Annual Conference, Breda, Netherlands, 2015.
Andreea Maria Cetean, Mara Paula Timofe, Marius I Ungureanu, et al. Development of Quality Management manuals for use in Dental Practice. EHMA Annual Conference, Breda, Netherlands, 2015.
Marius I Ungureanu, Mara Timofe, Simina Bile, Elena Zavrotchi, Catalin Baba, Silviu Albu. Dentists' perspective on patients' contribution to quality management. Results from a national survey. EHMA Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, 2014.
Timofe MP, Marius I Ungureanu, et al. Romanian dentists' competence: How could it benefit from patients' feedback? 4th Scientific Symposium for Doctoral Candidates in Biomedical Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2013.
Timofe MP, Marius I Ungureanu, et al. Patient-dentist interaction: How important are the interpersonal factors? 27th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society, Bordeaux, France, 2013.
Marius I Ungureanu, Rus AI, CO Baba, F Mocean, RM Cherecheș. Are informal payments perceived differently by health professionals and patients? EHMA Annual Conference, Milan, Italy, 2013.
Marius I Ungureanu, Bianca Baciu, et al. Attitudes towards informal health care payments in Romania and their implications on health sector reform. APHA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2012.
Marius I Ungureanu, Răzvan Mircea Cherecheș, et al. Informal health care payments in Romania in the context of health system reform. EHMA Annual Conference, Bern, Switzerland, 2012.
Ioana A. Rus, Marius I Ungureanu, Răzvan M. Chereches. Patients' perspective on Romanian physicians' performance as related to informal payments. TEMPUS Project Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2012.
Marius I Ungureanu, et al. Are informal health care payments confined to public facilities? Evidence from Romania. EUPHA Annual Conference, St. Julians, Malta, 2012.
Marius I Ungureanu, Cherecheș RM, et al. Health inequalities in the Romanian healthcare system from the perspective of informal payments. ECHE, Zurich, Switzerland, 2012.
Răzvan M. Cherecheș, Marius I Ungureanu, et al. Informal payments: The definition — a systematic review. APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2011.
Cherecheș RM, Marius I Ungureanu, et al. Informal Payments, Health and Wealth — The Case from Romania. Assets for Health and Wellbeing Conference, London, UK, 2011.

Resources

For practitioners

Legislation

Guidelines & Frameworks

Infographics & Presentations

For stakeholders

Areas in which we need more investment to increase the number of health professionals (Sud-Muntenia, Sud-Est)
Areas in which you need to increase or decrease the number of beds based on cases
Map the main specialties of each area and decide how to allocate the graduates and how to plan the number of admissions

Center for Health Workforce Research and Policies