HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Mental Health Nurse, Postgraduate Education, Cardiovascular Disease
17 Oct 2020
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The health care workforce includes well-known professionals such as nurses, pharmacists, and dentists; it also includes many other, less obvious professions that encompass a wide variety of technicians, therapists, assistants, administrative personnel, and managers. This fact becomes more complex when one recognizes that the health workforce plays an important role in economic development and income distribution. Other large occupations in health care include home health aides, medical assistants, dental assistants, pharmacy technicians, and emergency medical technicians/paramedics. The health care occupations also include licensed alternative and complementary providers, such as chiropractors and acupuncturists. Approaches to health workforce planning vary across countries. Countries with national health care systems often closely manage the employment of health professionals, as well as the pipeline of new graduates from education programs. Many countries, including the united states, do not have a highly centralized health care system and engage in limited national health workforce planning efforts.
