Strategic Health Workforce Planning
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چکیده
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 a large health system for a single worker class, e.g. nurses. We give a series ofcommon-sense conditions any system of this kind should satisfy, and use them to prove theoptimality of a natural lookahead policy. We then use real-world data to examine how suchpolicies perform in more complex systems with additional detail.
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