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FEATURED ARTICLE
Healthcare Quarterly, 5(2) 2001: 51-54
Health Human Resource Planning: Head Counting Is Not
Enough
Jennifer Zelmer and Kira Leeb
Abstract:
Each day Canadians make many decisions that affect how likely they
are to need different types of healthcare in the future. These
choices include whether to smoke, what to eat, and how much to
exercise. Healthcare providers, organizations, governments and
others also make far-reaching decisions that affect how likely
different healthcare services are to be available in the future.
Examples include how many training spots to fund, what types of
healthcare facilities to build and where, and how to organize and
deliver healthcare services.
Health human resource planning takes place in this complex and
dynamic context. At the outset, tracking the numbers of healthcare
professionals can provide important insights for planning. Over 1.5
million people work in the Canadian health and social services
sector in regulated and unregulated professions (CIHI 2001).
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Don't panic, prepare
Employers have obligation to protect workers
Jim Middlemiss, Financial Post
Published: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
It's time to audit your crisis
readiness
Swine flu highlights issues of employer rights
Howard Levitt, Financial Post
Published: Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Staff Nurse Empowerment and Effort-Reward Imbalance
Kinga M. Kluska, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Michael S. Kerr
The purpose of this study was to test an expanded model of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Structural Theory of Organizational Behaviour (Kanter 1977; Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian and Wilk 2001) by examining the relationship between nurses' empowerment and...
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TRANSITIONS
May 19, 2009
Tom Sommerville to Business Technology at
Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Honourable Susan Whelan to Chief Executive
Officer, the Canadian Cancer Society - Ontario
Susanne Bjerno to Guelph General Hospital as Vice
President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information
Officer
Dr. David Ostrow to Vancouver Coastal Health as
President and Chief Executive Officer (Vancouver, BC)
Peter Szota to Grand River Community Health Centre
as Executive Director
Dr. Chaim Bell to 2008 Applied Health Services and
Policy Chair. More (PDF).
May 12, 2009
Julia Scott to Vice President Clinical Programs
& CNE, Markham Stouffville Hospital, Markham (ON)
Dr. Kelly Leitch to the Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto (ON)
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