“…Concerning the health workforce , absorptive policies included: - Reducing personnel payments (United States, UK, Slovenia, Denmark, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Romania, Spain, and Portugal) [ 5 , 6 , 10 , 35 , 77 , 94 ],
- Reducing the number of staff through hiring freezes, layoffs, reduction in staffing positions, reduction in the rate of replacement, and redeploying human resources (United States, Greece, Spain, Denmark, France, Portugal) [ 5 , 6 , 10 , 27 , 39 , 71 , 78 , 79 , 85 ].
- Employing less skilled or unskilled personnel (Netherlands, UK, Slovakia, United States) [ 5 , 6 , 10 , 35 ].
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