Pediatric Workforce Issues

Workforce, work, and advocacy issues in pediatric orthopaedics.

Pediatric Workforce Statement

This statement reviews current physician workforce projections, and identifies the factors that will have the most impact on future pediatric workforce projections. It discusses the key issues relating to the pediatric workforce: utilization of services, provision of care by both pediatricians and nonpediatricians, pediatric subspecialization, ethnic composition of the population and of the ped...

Community physiotherapy workforce issues.

CORREsPOnDEnCE TO: Janet Copeland Research and Professional development, new Zealand society of Physiotherapists, PO Box 27386, Wellington, new Zealand janet@physiotherapy. org.nz Although Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) were established to provide coordinated primary health care involving a range of providers, physiotherapy involvement in PHOs is limited. This means that access to physioth...

Health workforce issues for podiatry

Australia has one of the best health systems in the world on many parameters but is facing great challenges with an ageing population increasingly effected with chronic disease. There is also an unrealistic expectation amongst the community as to what the health system can provide and at what cost. A major challenge is the workforce – since it too is ageing. What is important as we move forward...

Dental workforce issues in the United Kingdom.

T he purpose of this article is to discuss some of the issues we are facing within the United Kingdom with regard to the dental workforce. It is a very personal view influenced by the projects I have worked on over the last two years. This overview will look at what is happening in the UK in terms of population demographics and dental treatment patterns, and I will pose some questions as to how...