Health Workforce Research
Health workforce research is the investigation of how social, economic, organizational, political and policy factors affect access to health care professionals, and how the organization and composition of the workforce itself can affect health care delivery, quality, equity, and costs.
Many government health departments, academic institutions and related agencies have established research programs to identify and quantify the scope and nature of HHR problems leading to health policy in building an innovative and sustainable health services workforce in their jurisdiction. Some examples of HRH information and research dissemination programs include:
- Human Resources for Health journal
- HRH Knowledge Hub, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Albany, New York
- Canadian Institute for Health Information: Spending and Health Workforce
- Public Health Foundation of India: Human Resources for Health in India
- National Human Resources for Health Observatory of Sudan
- OECD Human Resources for Health Care Study
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