The content, a laundry list of forward-thinking optimism -- energy renewal, business ingenuity, workforce resourcefulness, private sector innovation and the always-gangbusting education -- helped to ease down the medicine portion.
Generally, the proportion of younger health workers exceeded that of older persons, following the expected pattern for renewal of the workforce.
What I do find particularly stunning is that, in a moment of economic crisis, where we need people well prepared to enter the workforce and help create sustainable economic renewal, that wanting people to have the opportunity to obtain post-secondary education would be a point of criticism.
The age distribution of the health workforce can be an indicator of renewal of personnel.
Although the sample size was small, with only 28 physicians included in the Chad survey, the results do suggest that the renewal of the medical workforce is not ensured for the future.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) collects data on working practices and employment trends for the medical workforce at the time of medical registration renewal.
Innovative strategies have been implemented in many Countdown countries to rapidly scale up the health workforce, especially in the context of primary health care renewal.
The proportion of those starting or completing training in a health-related field with respect to the total HRH stock offers insight into the renewal and loss patterns of the health workforce.
It wants a "dynamic and innovative public service" that enlists both workforce, including managers and trade unions, and public in the renewal effort.
The advance of complex health systems organizations and medical knowledge, as well as the introduction of sophisticated technology, mean that improvements in population health and welfare increasingly depend on the degree of educational attainment and renewal and maintenance of technical capacity among the health workforce.
With a 5-year term for research grants and a competitive renewal rate of about 53%, supporting an expanded scientific workforce is a tall order for NIH, even as the research budget continues to grow at a modest pace.
