Table 5 Data requirements for making use of each of the different documented methodologies
From: Handling healthcare workforce planning with care: where do we stand?
Methodology | Indicators | Data requirements |
|---|---|---|
Supply | Stock of licensed providers Baseline stock, age/sex distribution, growth projections | High |
Annual additions to licensed stocksGraduates, in-migration (foreign-trained, immigrantes, on temporary work permits), returned to profession | ||
Education/training programmesNumber of programmes and students enrolled, attrition rates, years to complete programme, number of graduates, costs | ||
Annual attritions to licensed stocksRetirements, mortality, career changes, emigration, abroad | ||
Productivity | Labour market Occupational participation rates, occupational employment rates, employment projections, vacancy rates, turnover rates, wage rates, productivity growth, cyclical factors, alternative career options | High |
Employment statusFull-time, part-time, casual, full-time equivalent (FTE), average hours worked, direct patient care hours, no longer practising, not licensed in jurisdiction | ||
Skill mix | Government policy variablesHHR education funding, alternative delivery modes, licencing regulations, professional roles/deployment, recruitment/retention strategies, immigration policy, remuneration rates/types, HHR capacity-building | High |
Worker-to-population ratios | Health labour workforce Number of active and employed physicians and nurses | Low |
Economic | Population demographicsTotal population, age/sex distribution, births/deaths, population projections | High |
Socio-economic variablesDisposable income, GDP growth projections, ethnic factors | ||
Needs | Population health statusAge/sex mortality, morbidity, acuity | High |
EpidemiologyIncidence and prevalence rates, hospital discharges, health patterns of the population | ||
Service targets | Utilization patternsNumber of occupied beds, number of inpatients and outpatients, number of surgeries/screenings/consultations performed, etc. | Low to high |