SUSTAINABILITY OF HEALTH AND CARE SYSTEMS: MODELLING THE NURSING EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS IN AN AGEING POPULATION
SUSTAINABILITY OF HEALTH AND CARE SYSTEMS: MODELLING THE NURSING EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS IN AN AGEING POPULATION
Author(s): Barbara Grah, Vlado Dimovski, Sandra Penger, Simon Colnar, David BogatajSubject(s): Labor relations, Government/Political systems, Health and medicine and law, Gerontology
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: health; sustainability; elderly population; ageing; healthcare; nursing profession entrance and exit; multiple decrement model;
Summary/Abstract: This study aims to develop an actuarial model to recognize and determine the quality of the healthcare policies, needed to ensure the sustainability of health care systems in terms of a sufficient number of skilled nurses that will cater to the demand of healthcare services from a growing number of older adults in an ageing society and due to pandemics. We have applied the actuarial-mathematical method, which resulted in the proposed multiple decrement model of nurse workforce dynamics. It enables the measurement of the quality of a given national policy system. We built the case of the selected EU economy by applying the proposed model to available statistical data and 15 interviews with nurses, analysed by content analysis. The findings emphasise a lack of nurses in the present as well as a possible lack in the future. It is up to national policies to improve this situation based on the use of the proposed multiple decrement model.
Journal: Društvena istraživanja - Časopis za opća društvena pitanja
- Issue Year: 30/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 379-400
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English