Planning for the health workforce is essential

Strategic Health Workforce Planning

Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...

How evidence-based workforce planning in Australia is informing policy development in the retention and distribution of the health workforce

BACKGROUND Australia's health workforce is facing significant challenges now and into the future. Health Workforce Australia (HWA) was established by the Council of Australian Governments as the national agency to progress health workforce reform to address the challenges of providing a skilled, innovative and flexible health workforce in Australia. HWA developed Australia's first major, long-t...

A robust and knowledgeable workforce is essential for public health nutrition policy implementation.

Strengthening data for planning a sustainable health workforce: what data to collect for health workforce development and why

Background: A strong and responsive health workforce (HWF) is essential for sustainable health care systems. Planning the appropriate HWF for provision of high-quality care and moving towards universal health coverage is a key issue for health policy, in which education and labour market dynamics should be taken into consideration. The macro-level trends and challenges significantly influence ...

Is our health workforce prepared for future health megatrends?

Megatrends have the ability to fundamentally impact how societies are shaped, operate and interact. Megatrends can best be described as an ‘important shift in the progress of society’. Classic examples of these societal impacts can be seen in the invention of the telephone or the ready availability of affordable commercial air travel. More importantly, as health is an outcome of how societies a...