Health workforce planning: which countries include nurse practitioners and physician assistants and to what effect?

Claudia B. Maier, Ronald Batenburg, Stephen Birch, Britta Zander, Robert Elliott and Reinhard Busse

Health Policy, 2018, vol. 122, issue 10, 1085-1092

Abstract: An increasing number of countries are introducing new health professions, such as Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs). There is however limited evidence, on whether these new professions are included in countries’ workforce planning.

Keywords: Workforce planning; Workforce projections; Nurse practitioner; Physician assistant; Substitution; Skill-mix; Human resources for health (HRH) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.07.016

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