The Barcelona International Symposium (21-23 April 2005). Synthesis reports.
The Symposium was held in Barcelona, Spain, with the Institut d'Estudis de la Salut acting as host. It gathered 51 participants working in 34 institutions based in 18 countries. The main objective of the Symposium was to create an opportunity for assessing the past trends and forecasting the future developments of health workforce within the various national health systems. The Symposium was composed of 5 sessions devoted to presentations of the papers freely contributed by the participants and 5 discussion sessions devoted to the following themes : (i) Supply of and demand for health workforce, (ii) Future trends and forecasting methods ; (iii) Strategies for managing and planning health workforce ; (iv) Health workforce in underserved areas; (v) International migration of health workers. Each discussion session was conducted by a discussion leader whose the synthesis report is displayed here below.
Basu
Kisalaya
K
Microsimulation, Modelling and Data Analysis Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Danon-Hersch
Nadia
N
Frisack
Johan
J
Kingma
Mireille
M
Martinez-Carretero
Josep Maria
JM
Oberg
Klas
K
Pong
Raymond W
RW
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D002170:Canada; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000639:trends*; D006285:Health Planning; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends; D009313:National Health Programs; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000600:supply & distribution; D019035:Rural Health Services; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain; D013038:Specialization; D013222:State Medicine; D014481:United States