Future shortage in healthcare workers effects availability hospital care negatively
Description:
The upcoming shortage of (para-)medical professionals will lead to a restricted availability of hospital care. This can e.g. lead to ‘post-code healthcare’ (redistribution of care to those who can affort it) or to an evenly distributed shortage
Enablers:
• The increasing number of medical specialists that are working part-time
• Increasing demand for specialistic diagnosis/care
• Backlog in investments in hospitals
• Higher demands for quality hospital care
Inhibitors:
• Better planning of education and training new specialists
• New technological developments are less labour-intensive/ need less human interference
• Lower demand
Paradigms:
• Personal care is neccesary
• Increasing morbidity in (double) aging population
Experts:
• NN
Timing:
Web Resources:
- World Report on violence and death - Chapter 5 - Abuse of the elderly. http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/global_campaign/en/chap5.pdf