European Paediatric AssociationAs Few Pediatricians as Possible and as Many Pediatricians as Necessary?
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Human Resource Planning in Pediatrics
The factors that must be taken into account in the process of calculating the pediatric workforce include geography, population density, transport links, relationship between child health centers, political readiness for change, and cooperation between different types of clinicians. Critical to the discussion is the number of children requiring community care, hospital care, and public healthcare by pediatricians to adapt the different competences of pediatrics to the needs of young patients
Results of a Survey on National Pediatric Workforce in 2013-2018
Responses to a questionnaire on national pediatric workforce were received from pediatricians (see author list) of 16 European countries and subsequently analyzed (data on individual countries will be published in an upcoming European Paediatric Association article). Results were also compared for the 3 subgroups of child healthcare systems as described by Katz et al4 and the World Health Organization5: pediatric system = 6 countries (Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Russia, Spain),
Conclusions
What is the best model for testing how to calculate the ideal number of children in the community who should be cared for by a single pediatrician? We may be naive when using the existing statistics on numbers of pediatricians of 16 European countries as indicators for solving the challenges of a highly complex service system also including other caregivers for children.
The status of the pediatric workforce in child healthcare has been discussed for several years, debating oversupply and
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