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Strategic approaches to the development of Australia's future primary care workforce
Author(s) -
Harris Mark F,
Zwar Nicholas A,
Walker Christine F,
Knight Sabina M
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03136.x
Subject(s) - workforce , economic shortage , primary care , workforce development , business , health care , workforce planning , primary health care , nursing , economic growth , policy development , public relations , political science , medicine , family medicine , government (linguistics) , economics , economic policy , linguistics , philosophy
Shortages in, and maldistribution of, the primary health care workforce will continue to limit access to health care. The current health reform proposals and policies recognise workforce development as a priority, but only partially address the barriers to improvement. In particular, there will need to be more systematic development of interdisciplinary education within primary health care services, and funding to support this.