Changing demographics : implications for physicians, nurses, and other health workers

"The size and characteristics of the future health workforce are determined by the complex interaction of the health care operating environment, economic factors, technology, regulatory and legislative actions, epidemiological factors, the health care education system and demographics. Efforts over the past several decades to model the supply of and demand for health workers show there is a lack of consensus on the relationship between the health workforce and its determinants, the future values of many of these determinants, and forecasters' assumptions. The Workforce Analysis Branch of the Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), commissioned a report synthesizing the literature on one set of factors that will have a profound impact on the future health workforce-changing demographics-and discussing its implications for the health workforce. In addition, BHPr commissioned the update of two requirements forecasting models: the Physician Aggregate Requirements Model (PARM) and the Nursing Demand Model (NDM). The major findings of the literature and these two demand models are the following."

"Changing demographics implications for physicians, nurses, and other health workers"
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