This article examines issues facing the future health care workforce in Australia in light of factors such as population ageing. It has been argued that population ageing in Australia is affecting the supply of health care professionals as the health workforce ages and at the same time increasing the demand for health care services and the health care workforce.However, the picture is not that ...

A workforce planning problem is formulated here as a mixed-integer program and then solved with Cplex. Our experiments show that Cplex is capable of solving to optimality of near optimality small “structured” problem instances but it fails to solve those considered “unstructured”. We describe the development of a parallel genetic algorithm capable of finding high-quality solutions to both struc...

Every country struggles with how best to meet the demand for health care services with the available resources. This commentary offers a perspective on the Israeli physician workforce and the analyses of Horowitz et al., which found age and gender differences in physician productivity and career longevity, differences across specialties, and a sizeable fraction of licensed Israeli physicians li...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2012.06.015 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 514 836 3771; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] ( concordia.ca (N. Bhuiyan), [email protected] In today’s competitive market, manufacturers need to work hard towards improving their production system performance in order to satisfy customer demands. I...

Physician workforce planning tools are needed to address the adequacy of the nation’s physician workforce to meet its health needs. Since health care is an inherently local phenomenon, physician supply and demand need to be understood in the local area context. Therefore, we seek to build a Local Area Physician Workforce Planning Model that emphasizes a local perspective. To that end, we are de...

A lack of professional leadership has left the district nursing workforce without an effective voice in policy making and planning, according to the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI).

Sustainable implementation of new workforce redesign initiatives requires strategies that minimize barriers and optimize supports. Such strategies could be provided by a set of guiding principles. A broad understanding of the concerns of all the key stakeholder groups is required before effective strategies and initiatives are developed. Many new workforce redesign initiatives are not underpinn...