Cohort Profile: The Nurses and Midwives e-Cohort Study--A Novel Electronic Longitudinal Study
| Autor: | Turner, Catherine, Bain, Chris, Schluter, Philip J., Yorkston, Emily, Bogassian, Fiona, McClurre, Rod, Hungtington, Annette, Tuckett, Anthony Gerrard, Hegney, Desley, Thompson, David Robert, Stewart, Simon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Attitude of Health Personnel Nurse Midwives Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject Nurses Personnel Turnover Global workforce Nursing Midwifery Scarcity Young Adult medicine Humans Personnel Selection Human resources media_common Internet ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry Public health Australia General Medicine Middle Aged Occupational Diseases Career Mobility Nursing Administration Research Aging in the American workforce Research Design Workforce Workforce planning Female Epidemiologic Methods business New Zealand Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Epidemiology. 38:53-60 |
| ISSN: | 1464-3685 0300-5771 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ije/dym294 |
| Popis: | Nurses and midwives comprise the largest professional group in most national health systems, so shortfalls in numbers can have a substantial impact on health care delivery. A scarcity of human resources in health has been internationally recognized and has led the International Council of Nurses to launch the Global Workforce Project in 2004, and the World Health Organization to announce the Health Workforce Decade 2006–15 in 2006.1,2 Efforts to address workforce needs through coherent workforce planning and policy setting are hampered by the complexity of predicting the supply of and demand for nurses and midwives, and the challenges associated with understanding drivers of workforce retention.3 Available workforce descriptors among regulatory authorities vary considerably; and collections are mostly cross-sectional, frequently incomplete and typically limited to administrative databases. In Australia and New Zealand, workforce issues include the migration of staff between states and countries, and critical personnel shortages in rural and . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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