Health Sciences 2045A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Health Human Resources, Chevrolet Hhr, Workforce Planning
20 Jan 2017
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Hospitals & funding, hhr, value for $ Review the components of hhr in canada. Learn- to-do-by doing: how to plan a sustainable heath care team that will care for a specific population. Includes physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, allied health professionals, community health workers, social health workers etc. Human resources for health are identified as one of the core building blocks of a health system. Shortage of skilled health providers: countries are struggling and often competing to develop and maintain a stable, adequate health workforce. Trying to track and forecast needs is very challenging. Developed countries like canada are under pressure to become more self-sufficient in health human resources. Self-sufficiency is a very complex process or ideal. In canada, we have the advisory committee on health delivery and human resources + provinces have their own (hfo) Often measured in terms of ratios of providers to patients, but this discounts patient needs, innovation, models, etc.
