Workforce Demand Forecaster Tool: Health Human Resources' Recruitment Crystal Ball?

Workforce demand forecaster tool: health human resources' recruitment crystal ball?

As the growing human resource (HR) shortage continues to affect healthcare organizations, new approaches are explored to shift traditionally reactive hiring practices into proactive gear. To help quantitative forecasting data drive recruitment planning, six Ontario healthcare organizations and one academic partner teamed up to investigate the applicability of an Excel-based forecasting tool, th...

The Human Resources for Health Effort Index: a tool to assess and inform Strategic Health Workforce Investments

BACKGROUND Despite its importance, the field of human resources for health (HRH) has lagged in developing methods to measure its status and progress in low- and middle-income countries suffering a workforce crisis. Measures of professional health worker densities and distribution are purely numerical, unreliable, and do not represent the full spectrum of workers providing health services. To pr...

Identifying Demand for Health Resources

Health promotion funding, workforce recruitment and turnover in New Zealand.

INTRODUCTION Almost a decade on from the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy and amidst concerns about funding of health promotion, we undertook a nationwide survey of health promotion providers. AIM To identify trends in recruitment and turnover in New Zealand's health promotion workforce. METHODS Surveys were sent to 160 organisations identified as having a health focus and employing...

Workforce Demand Study

The dietetics profession faces many workforce challenges and opportunities to ensure that registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs) are at the forefront of health andnutrition. The professionmust prepare for newpublic priorities, changes in population, and the restructuring of how people learn andwork, as well as new advances in science and technology. In September...