Re: An evaluation of New Zealand’s iterative Workforce Service Reviews: a new way of thinking about health workforce planning

A new way of thinking about health care systems?

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...

Investing in New Zealand’s Future Health Workforce Post-entry training of New Zealand’s future health workforce: Proposed investment approach

Time for a new approach to medical workforce planning.

There are concerns that Australia is facing an impending shortage in the medical workforce, and there are significant changes occurring in key determinants of medical workforce supply and demand. To date, workforce planning has not taken into account the full range of dynamic variables that are involved, nor accounted for their inherent uncertainty and complex interactions. Future planning will...

A new way of thinking about fatigue: a reconceptualization.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To present a reconceptualization of fatigue. DATA SOURCES Studies indexed in CINAHL, MEDLINE, PubMed, Psyc INFO, SPORTDiscus, and CancerLit from 1995-2004; studies included in the bibliographies of indexed articles; and five qualitative studies conducted by the author. DATA SYNTHESIS Tiredness and exhaustion are conceptually distinct from fatigue. All three concepts are l...