Title |
How evidence-based workforce planning in Australia is informing policy development in the retention and distribution of the health workforce
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Published in |
Human Resources for Health, February 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-12-7 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Ian F Crettenden, Maureen V McCarty, Bethany J Fenech, Troy Heywood, Michelle C Taitz, Sam Tudman |
Abstract |
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-term national workforce projections for doctors, nurses and midwives over a planning horizon to 2025 (called Health Workforce 2025; HW 2025), which provided a national platform for developing policies to help ensure Australia's health workforce meets the community's needs. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Australia | 3 | 20% |
Canada | 2 | 13% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
Spain | 2 | 13% |
United States | 1 | 7% |
Unknown | 5 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Members of the public | 11 | 73% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 13% |
Scientists | 1 | 7% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
United States | 2 | <1% |
Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
Brazil | 1 | <1% |
Ireland | 1 | <1% |
Spain | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 207 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Master | 61 | 28% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 15% |
Researcher | 24 | 11% |
Other | 12 | 6% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 5% |
Other | 37 | 17% |
Unknown | 37 | 17% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 52 | 24% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 36 | 17% |
Social Sciences | 23 | 11% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 23 | 11% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 8 | 4% |
Other | 34 | 16% |
Unknown | 39 | 18% |