Spatial distribution of the supply of the clinical health workforce 2014: relationship to the distribution of the Indigenous population
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2016) Spatial distribution of the supply of the clinical health workforce 2014: relationship to the distribution of the Indigenous population, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 29 March 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2016). Spatial distribution of the supply of the clinical health workforce 2014: relationship to the distribution of the Indigenous population. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Spatial distribution of the supply of the clinical health workforce 2014: relationship to the distribution of the Indigenous population. AIHW, 2016.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Spatial distribution of the supply of the clinical health workforce 2014: relationship to the distribution of the Indigenous population. Canberra: AIHW; 2016.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016, Spatial distribution of the supply of the clinical health workforce 2014: relationship to the distribution of the Indigenous population, AIHW, Canberra.
PDF | 15.7Mb
This report uses a new measure developed by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare—the Geographically-adjusted Index of Relative Supply (GIRS)—to examine the geographic supply of the clinical health workforce in seven key professions with particular relevance to Indigenous Australians. These professions were general practitioners, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, dentists, psychologists and optometrists. Areas with lower GIRS scores are more likely to face workforce supply challenges than those with higher GIRS scores. The GIRS scores were compared with the distribution of the Indigenous population to assess the extent to which Indigenous people live in areas with lower relative levels of workforce supply.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-038-8
- Cat. no: IHW 170
- Pages: 81
-
Occupations with the most relative workforce supply challenges are midwives, optometrists and psychologists
-
A higher proportion of Indigenous than non-Indigenous people live in areas with health workforce supply challenges
-
Over 72,000 Indigenous people live in areas with supply challenges in at least 4 of the 7 included health professions
-
Over 19,000 Indigenous women of child-bearing age live in areas with a low relative supply of midwives