Week 6: Guest Lecture Flashcards
What are Health Human Resources defined by WHO?
As all ppl engaged in actions whose primary intent is to enhance health. Health workforce another way to refer to HHR.
What is the Health Human Resources Management?
Is the process of planning attracting, developing, and retaining the human resources (employees) of an organization.
What are the system’s building blocks of the HHR and WHO health system’s framework?
Service/delivery, health workforce, information, medical products, vaccines, and technologies, financing, leadership/governance
what are the overall outcomes of HHR and WHO health system’s framwork?
Improved health (level and equity), responsiveness, social and financial risk protection, improved efficiency
What are the value of investing in HHR
- Improved health outcomes (health workers make health system deliver healthcare services)
- Global Health Security (skilled health workers improve health system’s resiliance and responsiveness
- Economic Growth: A community’s productivity is greater when it is healthy
What are the types healthcare organizations?
hospitals, long term care, rehabilitation facilities, physicans offices and clinics, offices and clinics of other health practitioners, health and allied services, medical and dental labs
What are the key activities of HHRM?
Workforce planning
Recruitment
Compensation and benefits
employee and labour relations
Government compliance
Training development and retention
health, safety, and security
What is the purpose of HHRM planning?
- People (sufficient workforce to meet healthcare needs)
- Place (workforce distributed where services are needed)
- Time (availability aligns with patient demand)
- Skills (competencies match healthcare requirements)
- Motivations and attitudes (engaged and committed workforce)
- Cost (sustainable and efficient resource allocation)
- Care (effective and culturally appropriate services)
What are the Pros of Canadian Healthcare?
- Universal access to care
- effectiveness of treatment
- continuous advancement in technology
What are the Cons of Canadian Healthcare?
- Financial crush
- labour and talent shortages
- scientific advancement
- assessment and applying of info
How many people are working in health occupations since 2021?
1.5 million
How many hospitals in canada in 2023?
1017
How many people worked in hospitals in 2019
644 000
How many doctors in 2021?
94 000
How many nurses in 2021?
459 000
What does recuitment mean?
The process of finding, hiring, screening, and onboarding of qualified job candidates
What are some challenges being faced in healthcare?
- Many Healthcare professionals are retiring
- Aging population requiring care
- Fewer young ppl choosing profession
Why are young ppl not wanting to go in healthcare?
Viewpoint shift from:
* high tech -> low tech
* prestigious and secure -> chaotic and unstable
* mass-production society -> info society (no one wants to work 24/7)
Why do healthcare workers quit their jobs?
- chronic understaffing
- heavy workload
- lack of support
- work life imbalance
- workplace culture
- subpar working conditions
- poor management
- low pay
- burnout
- limited career growth opportunities
What is retention?
Refers to strategies organizations use to prevent employees from leaving
What are some retention strategies?
- Encourage employee creativity
- Foster workplace respect
- Growth opportunities
- Employee engagment
- Health challenges
