title: The Barcelona International Symposium (21-23 April 2005). Synthesis reports.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Microsimulation, Modelling and Data Analysis Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
authors.forename: Kisalaya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Basu
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Danon-Hersch
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frisack
authors.forename: Mireille
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kingma
authors.forename: Josep Maria
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Martinez-Carretero
authors.forename: Klas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oberg
authors.forename: Raymond W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Pong
mesh_terms: 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