Educating health workers: provincial results

There has been much talk recently about looming shortages in Canada's supply of individuals working in health occupations. To understand the degree to which the supply of workers in health occupations is meeting (and will meet) the health needs of Canadians, Health Canada - through the Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources (ACHDHR) - contracted the Centre for Education Statistics at Statistics Canada to study the relationship between education and training and the supply of entrants into health occupations. Using major Statistics Canada data sources related to the education and training of Canadians, the intent of this second data report from the Health Human Resources and Education Project is to provide a jurisdictional view of the information already released at the national level, as well as to provide information (at the Canada and jurisdictional levels) on additional topics that were identified in the information needs outline that were not covered in the first data report, which was released in 2007. As such, this report reveals some important information about what happens before, during and after health education. It focuses on interest in health occupations, the number of students taking and graduating from postsecondary health programs along with their socio-demographic characteristics and those of the faculty teaching these programs, the labour market experiences of recent graduates from these programs - including their mobility after graduation - as well as the ongoing participation of health workers in formal and informal training.

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