CERF Conference 2005

 

HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES

 

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

May 26th and 27th, 2005

 

Sponsored by:

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada,

Statistics Canada

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Ontario)

Canadian Institute for Health Information

The Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (McMaster)

Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Program (McMaster)

 

FINAL PROGRAM

 

LOCATION: All sessions will be held in McMaster University Student Centre room 308/9. (On the third floor of building 51 on this campus map.)

 

(Note that were a paper has multiple authors, the presenter is indicated in bold)

 

Thursday, May 26th

 

Welcome 9:00

Chair (and logistical matters): Thomas Crossley (McMaster)

 

Ken Norrie, Provost and Vice-President Academic (McMaster), “Welcome to McMaster”

 

David Green (UBC) and Louis Grignon (HRSDC) (CERF co-chairs), “Welcome from CERF”

 

Session A) 9:30 – 11:00

Overview of the Labour Market for Physicians

Chair: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault  (McMaster)

 

Lynda Buske (Canadian Medical Association), “Understanding the Physician Labour Market.”

 

Sung-Hee Jeon (McMaster University), Jeremiah Hurley and Thomas Crossley, “Physician Labour Supply in Canada”

 

Discussant: Hugh Grant (Winnipeg)

 

Break  11:00-11:15

 

Session B) 11:15 – 12:30

La Relève: Immigrants and Recent Graduates

Chair: Cliff Halliwell (HRSDC)

 

McIntosh, Karen, (McMaster University), Jennifer Blythe and Andrea Baumann,  “The Opportunity Cost of Unemployment: The case of Immigrant Nurses in Ontario.”

 

Chantal Vaillancourt (Statistics Canada), “Health graduates' labour force transition: an analysis using the National Graduates Survey (Class of 2000).” (Presentation)

 

Discussants: Louis Grignon (HRSDC)

 

12:30 – 1:45 Lunch

 

Session C) 1:45 – 3:30

Retention of Health Human Resources

Chair: Vincent Hildebrand (York)

 

A. Laporte, Ruth Croxford (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences), M.Alam Eddine, A. Baumann, L.O’Brien-Palass and R. Deber,  “Leaving Nursing, Predictors of Nursing Drop-Out and Switching Between Sectors.” (Presentation)

 

Benoit Dostie and Pierre-Thomas Léger (HEC)  “High Skilled Workers and the Migration Decisions of Physicians”

 

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (McMaster), “On the Move: the Migration of Health Care Providers”

                                                                                                        

Discussants: Alice Nakamura (Alberta), David Gray (Ottawa)

 

3:30 – 3:45 Break

 

Session D) 3:45 – 4:45

 

New Health Human Resource Data Sources From CIHI 

Chair: Jeremiah Hurley (McMaster)

 

Steve Slade (CIHI)

 

 

Friday, May 27th

 

Session E) 8:30 – 10:15

Health Human Resources Issues

Chair: Lori Curtis (Waterloo)

 

Wendy Pyper (Statistics Canada), “Trends in Nursing.”

 

BeomSoo Kim and William Evans (Maryland), “Hospital Staffing and Patient Outcomes.”

 

Paul Holyoke (University of Toronto), Molly C. Verrier, Raisa B. Deber and Michel D. Landry, “The Distribution of Regulated Physiotherapists across Ontario.”

 

Discussants: Thomas Crossley (McMaster), Mike McCracken (Informetrica), Ron Wall (Public Health Agency of Canada)

 

 

Break 10:15-10:30

 

Session F) 10:30 – 12:15

Forecasting and Planning for Health Human Resource Requirements

Chair: Sung-Hee Jeon 

 

Stephen Birch (McMaster University), Gail Tomblin-Murphy, Linda O’Brien-Pallas, George Kephart and Rob Alder, “Health Human Resources and the Production Function for Health Care.”

 

Frank Denton (McMaster University), Amiram Gafni and Byron Spencer, “Users and Suppliers of Physician Services: A Tale of Two Populations.”

 

Gillian Mulvale (McMaster University) “Health Human Resources Planning for Mental Health Services: Lessons Learned from a Review of Experiences in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.”

 

Discussants: Ron Wall (Public Health Agency of Canada), Beniot Dostie (HEC), Mike McCracken (Informetrica)

 

Session G) 12:15 -1:30

Panel Discussion and Wrap Up: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go From Here?

 

Moderator: Byron Spencer, Professor of Economics and Directors, Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population, McMaster University.

 

Panelists:

 

  • Owen Adams, Assistant Secretary General, Research Policy and Planning, Canadian Medical Association

 

  • Cliff Halliwell, Director General, Policy Research and Coordination, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

 

  • Diane Watson, Associate Director, Institute for Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Member, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University if British Columbia

 

  • Jeremiah Hurley, Professor, Department of Economics and Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University

 

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