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Health Systems Research -- Health Workforce

There are several research projects going on relating to Health workforce. Deborah Schofield co-leads the Australian contingent for the International Medical Workforce Collaborative with the US, Canada and the UK. And leads the health workforce research stream for a $1.5 m Research and Development Capacity Building Infrastructure Grant funded by NSW Health To date the program has the following research projects:

  • A series of models and related papers of the impact of ageing and generational change on the health workforce and its implications for retirement of medical practitioners, nurses, allied health professionals, dentists and pharmacists.
  • The development of a model of the demand for GP services including factors such as location of residence, income, SEIFA, health status, age and sex.
  • Projections of demand for public hospital bed days.
  • The Careers in Rural Health Tracking Study (CIRHTS). CIRHTS is a longitudinal survey of medical, nursing, and allied health students who have completed a rural or remote training placement each year.

Michelle Cunich is researching the effect of workload and tertiary training on the retention of registered nurses in New South Wales The data for this project come from a seventeen-year long survey with approximately 75,000 RNs in each year (i.e. panel data).

Researchers Involved

Selected Publications

Schofield D, Passey M, Earnest A, Gloor I, Shrestha R (2007) Are We Getting Healthier As We Grow Older? Implications for baby boomer labour force participation. Ed. by Weller; N Weller; J Weller C Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.). Proceedings from the Healthy Aging and Longevity: Third International Conference Vol. 1114, issue 1, 230-240

Schofield D, Hornby P, Thushara F, Fletcher S (2008) Chapter 6: Health workforce projections and forecasting. In Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluation of human resources for health. A Joint Publication of the World Health Organisation, World Bank and United States Agency for International Development (Forthcoming).

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