Building allied health workforce capacity: a strategic approach to workforce innovation

Building allied health workforce capacity: a strategic approach to workforce innovation.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to identify areas where allied health assistants (AHAs) are not working to their full scope of practice in order to improve the effectiveness of the allied health workforce. METHODS Qualitative data collected via focus groups identified suitable AHA tasks and a quantitative survey with allied health professionals (AHPs) measured the magnitude of work...

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...

Advanced allied health assistants: an emerging workforce.

OBJECTIVE Nationally and internationally there is work underway to continue to advance the scope of practice of allied health assistants (AHA). The advanced role requires additional training and competency development, as well as significant clinical experience. To build on the evidence relating to advanced scope AHAs, ACT Health undertook a project to explore the potential for the development ...

Building the Future Environmental Health Workforce.

Developing a Strategic Approach for Managing an Ageing Workforce

As is the case in many developed countries around the world, Australia is experiencing the ageing of its population. The increasing number of older workers in Australia and many other industrialised nations presents an unprecedented challenge for employers, the economy, and for individual workers. The human resource management (HRM) challenges related to attracting and retaining older workers h...