Health Workforce Data

Leads: Arthur Sweetman & Ted McDonald

Health workforce data provides the foundation for health workforce planning, policy and management. Comprehensive and standardized health workforce data in particular can better support more integrated and linked data for more robust analyses. This theme builds upon international leading practices in the development and implementation of health workforce minimum data standards.

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Providers of Language-Appropriate Health Care Providers are Scarce: Self-declared language capabilities of the healthcare workforce in Ontario (December, 2020)
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Webinars

Integrated Solutions to Canada's Health Workforce Crisis (December, 2022)

CanCOVID Speaker Series: The Pandemic Exposes Critical Gaps in Health Workforce Data Infrastructure (February, 2021)
Presentations

Residential Care Sector PSW Workforce: Characteristics, Trends & Projections (January, 2023)

More Planning: A key to improving human resources for Canadian healthcare (November, 2022)
Publications

Long-term Trends in the Labour Supply and Productivity of Pharmacists in Canada (June, 2025)

The Employment, Retention and Exit of Publicly Employed Nurses in New Brunswick (June, 2024)

Multiple jobholding and part-time work among nurses in long-term care homes compared to other healthcare sectors: Evidence from Ontario (April, 2023)

Physician workforce planning in Canada: the importance of accounting for population aging and changing physician hours of work (March, 2023)

A Scientific Approach to Addressing Social Issues Using Administrative Data (March, 2023)

Pensions, Retirement, Longevity, and Long-Term Care II (February, 2023)

Health Workforce Data

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