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Health Workforce Planning in OECD Countries A Review of 26 Projection Models from 18 Countries

Title
Health Workforce Planning in OECD Countries [electronic resource]: A Review of 26 Projection Models from 18 Countries / Tomoko Ono, Gaetan Lafortune and Michael Schoenstein
Author
Ono, Tomoko.
Publication
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Lafortune, Gaetan.
  • Schoenstein, Michael.
Description
131 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
Summary
Health workforce planning aims to achieve a proper balance between the supply and demand for different categories of health workers, in both the short and longer-term. Workforce planning in the health sector is particularly important, given the time and cost involved in training new doctors and other health professionals. In a context of tight budget constraints, proper health workforce planning is needed not only to guide policy decisions on entry into medical and nursing education programmes, but also to assess the impact of possible re-organisations in health service delivery to better respond to changing health care needs...
Series Statement
OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.62
Uniform Title
OECD Health Working Papers, no.62.
Subject
Social Issues/Migration/Health
LCCN
10.1787/5k44t787zcwb-en
OCLC
oecd-lib-004926
Author
Ono, Tomoko.
Title
Health Workforce Planning in OECD Countries [electronic resource]: A Review of 26 Projection Models from 18 Countries / Tomoko Ono, Gaetan Lafortune and Michael Schoenstein
Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2013.
Series
OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.62
OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.62.
Connect to:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k44t787zcwb-en
Indexed Term
Social Issues/Migration/Health
Added Author
Lafortune, Gaetan.
Schoenstein, Michael.
Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/5k44t787zcwb-en doi
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