Research Guides: IRW240: Introduction to Work and Organizations: Healthcare

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Related to hospitals, healthcare clinics, healthcare employee associations (e.g., nurses' unions), doctors, medical students etc.

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Privatization
Technology innovation
Transnational accreditation
Workforce retention

Media articles on Healthcare

Barriers to accreditation frustrate foreign doctors; Canada's licensing process decried amid health-care worker shortage
Herring, J. (2023). Barriers to accreditation frustrate foreign doctors; Canada’s licensing process decried amid health-care worker shortage. Calgary Herald.
Meet the AI tools helping hospitals see more patients sooner: With hospital beds-per-capita at a historic low, technology that streamlines visits could make a dent in a growing health-care crisis
Lindzon, J. (2023). Meet the AI tools helping hospitals see more patients sooner: With hospital beds-per-capita at a historic low, technology that streamlines visits could make a dent in a growing health-care crisis. The Globe and Mail.
Ontario spending on private nurses soars since COVID-19: Hospitals in the province more than quadrupled the amount of money paid to for-profit agencies
Grant, K. (2023). Ontario spending on private nurses soars since COVID-19; Hospitals in the province more than quadrupled the amount of money paid to for-profit agencies. Globe and Mail, A1–.
Union survey suggests more than half of Ontario registered practical nurses considering leaving over pay
Raycraft, T. (2023). Union survey suggests more than half of Ontario registered practical nurses considering leaving over pay. Globe and Mail.

Grey literature and web resources on Healthcare

Health workforce in Canada: In focus (including nurses and physicians)
"Over the course of the pandemic, Canada’s health care workers have been faced with unprecedented demands. CIHI has compiled the most recent data on selected health professionals, including nurses and physicians, to shed light on the impacts of the pandemic on health care professionals, supply and distribution, migration, and physician payments and utilization."
Sustaining Nursing in Canada
"A set of coordinated evidence-based solutions targeted to support the nursing workforce now and into the future"
Taking Back Health Care: How to Accelerate People-Centred Reform Now
"We find ourselves in a moment of both opportunity and necessity — one demanding bold action. Governments and policymakers do not own the health-care system; they are entrusted with its stewardship. Health care belongs to all of us, and reform must empower its true owners."
World Health Organization (WHO): Health workforce

Scholarly articles on Healthcare

Diversifying the health workforce: a mixed methods analysis of an employment integration strategy
Baumann, A., Crea-Arsenio, M., Ross, D., & Blythe, J. (2021). Diversifying the health workforce: a mixed methods analysis of an employment integration strategy. Human Resources for Health, 19(1), 62–62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-021-00606-y
Healthcare workers’ perception of gender and work roles during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study
Mele, B. S., Holroyd-Leduc, J. M., Harasym, P., Dumanski, S. M., Fiest, K., Graham, I. D., Nerenberg, K., Norris, C., Parsons Leigh, J., Pilote, L., Pruden, H., Raparelli, V., Rabi, D., Ruzycki, S. M., Somayaji, R., Stelfox, H. T., & Ahmed, S. B. (2021). Healthcare workers’ perception of gender and work roles during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open, 11(12), e056434–e056434. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056434
Looking beyond parity: Gender wage gaps and the leadership labyrinth in the Canadian healthcare management workforce
Gupta, N., Balcom, S. A., & Singh, P. (2023). Looking beyond parity: Gender wage gaps and the leadership labyrinth in the Canadian healthcare management workforce. Healthcare Management Forum, 36(1), 49–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/08404704221104435
Health workforce strategies in response to major health events: a rapid scoping review with lessons learned for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Coates, A., Fuad, A.-O., Hodgson, A., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2021). Health workforce strategies in response to major health events: a rapid scoping review with lessons learned for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Human Resources for Health, 19(1), 154–154. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-021-00698-6

Books on Healthcare

Code White by Margaret M. Keith; James T. Brophy
ISBN: 9781771135665
Publication Date: 2021-09-01
Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials : Transnational Value Transfers and Losses. by Margaret Walton-Roberts
ISBN: 9781487505202
Publication Date: 2022
The Next Shift by Gabriel Winant
ISBN: 0674238095
Publication Date: 2021-03-23

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