Hypothesis: improving literacy about health workforce will improve rural health workforce recruitment, retention and capability.

Clinical Competence / statistics & numerical data Health Literacy / methods Health Workforce / statistics & numerical data Humans Personnel Selection / methods Personnel Turnover / statistics & numerical data Rural Health Services / statistics & numerical data
Capability Health Literacy Recruitment Retention Rural Workforce

Journal

Human resources for health
ISSN: 1478-4491
Titre abrégé: Hum Resour Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101170535

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
30 12 2019
Historique:
received: 03 07 2019
accepted: 20 12 2019
entrez: 1 1 2020
pubmed: 1 1 2020
medline: 17 9 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

One of the key barriers to health in rural areas is health workforce. Poor understanding and communication about health workforce across all stakeholder groups (including the broad community) is very common and can negatively affect the health workforce, recruitment, experiences and outcomes. In this paper, we propose the concept of literacy about health workforce. We propose this as a specific, actionable extension of the existing and well accepted health literacy concept. We hypothesise that improving literacy about health workforce will improve, in particular, rural health workforce recruitment, retention and capability. We propose that literacy about health workforce is important for all members of the health and broader system (e.g. local GP, mayor, workforce agency, health manager, Aboriginal health worker, carers, community health facilitators, patients, schools, local businesses, cultural and recreation groups) because we hypothesise their literacy about health workforce affects their capacity to make informed decisions and take action to manage their health workforce needs in direct synchrony with the community's health needs. We hypothesise that improving literacy about health workforce will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of attracting, recruiting, training, and retaining a high quality, capable, health workforce, and further, will support the development and acceptance of innovative solutions to health workforce crises such as new models of care. This hypothesis is action orientated, is testable and includes the consideration of methods to engage and improve literacy of those within and external to the health workforce.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND
One of the key barriers to health in rural areas is health workforce. Poor understanding and communication about health workforce across all stakeholder groups (including the broad community) is very common and can negatively affect the health workforce, recruitment, experiences and outcomes.
HYPOTHESIS
In this paper, we propose the concept of literacy about health workforce. We propose this as a specific, actionable extension of the existing and well accepted health literacy concept. We hypothesise that improving literacy about health workforce will improve, in particular, rural health workforce recruitment, retention and capability.
IMPLICATIONS OF THE HYPOTHESIS
We propose that literacy about health workforce is important for all members of the health and broader system (e.g. local GP, mayor, workforce agency, health manager, Aboriginal health worker, carers, community health facilitators, patients, schools, local businesses, cultural and recreation groups) because we hypothesise their literacy about health workforce affects their capacity to make informed decisions and take action to manage their health workforce needs in direct synchrony with the community's health needs. We hypothesise that improving literacy about health workforce will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of attracting, recruiting, training, and retaining a high quality, capable, health workforce, and further, will support the development and acceptance of innovative solutions to health workforce crises such as new models of care. This hypothesis is action orientated, is testable and includes the consideration of methods to engage and improve literacy of those within and external to the health workforce.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1186/s12960-019-0442-9 PMID: 31888671 PMC: PMC6937653
pubmed: 31888671
doi: 10.1186/s12960-019-0442-9
pii: 10.1186/s12960-019-0442-9
pmc: PMC6937653
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

105

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Auteurs

Alexandra Martiniuk (A)

The University of Sydney, Edward Ford Building A27, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia. Alexandra.Martiniuk@sydney.edu.au.
The George Institute for Global Health, City Road, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia. Alexandra.Martiniuk@sydney.edu.au.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1368-8206

Richard Colbran (R)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Robyn Ramsden (R)

Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.

Dave Karlson (D)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Emer O'Callaghan (E)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Estrella Lowe (E)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Michael Edwards (M)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Sharif Bagnulo (S)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Imogene Rothnie (I)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Laura Hardaker (L)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Bernadette Gotch (B)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

Arna Wotherspoon (A)

NSW Rural Doctors Network, PO Box 1111 Mascot, Sydney, NSW, 1460, Australia.

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