tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" The precarious supply of physical therapists across Canada: exploring national trends in health human resources (1991 to 2005)"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : The precarious supply of physical therapists across Canada: exploring national trends in health human resources (1991 to 2005) | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Open Access The precarious supply of physical therapists across Canada exploring national trends in health human resources 1991 to 2005 Michel D Landry 1 2 Thomas C Ricketts2 3 and Molly C Verrier1 Address department of Physical Therapy Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Canada department of Health Policy and Administration School of Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA and 3Cecil G. Sheps Centre for Health Services Research University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA Email Michel D Landry - Thomas C Ricketts - ricketts@ Molly C Verrier - Corresponding author Published 25 September 2007 Received I May 2007 . A7 J_ .IA I IO IX7O Accepted 25 September 2007 Human Resources for Health 2007 5 23 doi 1478-4491-5-23 This article is available from http content 5 I 23 2007 Landry et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Health Human Resource HHR ratios are one measure of workforce supply and are often expressed as a ratio in the number of health professionals to a sub-set of the population. In this study we explore national trends in HHR among physical therapists PTs across Canada. Methods National population data were combined with provincial databases of registered physical therapists in order to estimate the HHR ratio in 2005 and to establish trends between 1991 and 20o5. Results The national HHR ratio was PTs per 10 000 population in 1991 which increased to by 2000. In 2005 the HHR ratios varied widely across jurisdictions however we estimate that the national average dropped to