The resulting workforces are very imbalanced, with the most common pattern producing a surplus of medical doctors and a shortage of nurses and midwives.
One concerns imbalances in workforce structure, whether from a functional specialization, geographical or facility lens.
Another practical limitation to providing bariatric surgery to those who would benefit is the imbalance between workforce supply and patient demand.
Our investment strategy in health care workforce development is severely imbalanced, even when accounting for a difference in the costs of medical and nursing education.
Moreover, to facilitate comparisons between health workforce imbalances, a typology of imbalances is proposed that differentiates between profession/specialty imbalances, geographical imbalances, institutional and services imbalances and gender imbalances.
This imbalance in funding raises the question of a health workforce imbalance between preventive and curative care.
And this despite gender imbalances having been identified as one of the four key dimensions to understanding health workforce imbalances for policy decision making [ 16].
There was a huge age imbalance in the workforce, with more than 12,500 workers aged 40to6969, and just 3,700 under 40, an imbalance the council would work to redress.
Factors affecting health workforce imbalances are numerous and complex, but focusing on crucial elements should permit insight into the issue of health workforce imbalances.
This can be achieved by monitoring some indicators of workforce imbalances [ 34].
