Health Work Force Discussion 2022

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Running head: HEALTH WORK FORCE
Brief statement
The brief provided here is meant to address the problem of health workforce in the
medical fraternity. The brief seeks to analyze and propose recommendations that will have to be
adopted in order to deal effectively with the shortage of healthcare workers in the medical
discipline
Discussion
The issue of shortage of health work force in the medical discipline is one that has been
there for several years and which has brought a lot of disturbance in the medical sector. Australia
as a country has been faced with the shortage of health workforce which has forced the
stakeholders to try and come up with various solutions in order to deal with the problem
(Barriball, Bremner, Buchan, Craveiro, Dieleman, Dix,& Sermeus,2015). The lack of adequate
health workforce has resulted in the provision of low quality of health care services in the
hospital due to the fact that there is no enough personnel to handle the number of patients
seeking g medical assistance. This has also resulted in the patients waiting for long hours in
order to access medical services which results in some of them succumbing to the various
diseases that they are suffering from. The medical health force ratio of medical professionals is
lower than the recommended global ratio and this has resulted in much suffering of the
population seeking medical assistance. The problem of shortage of health workforce has mainly
been brought by the small number of people who are choosing to pursue the medical profession.
Most of the students view the medical training as a hard profession that involves a lot of studying
and therefore they opt to go for other professions that will not demand a lot from them(
DesRoches, Buerhaus, Dittus, & Donelan,2015). The students engage in business courses which

Running head: HEALTH WORK FORCE
are deemed easy as compared to medicine which needs a lot of studying time. Also, there is a
common notion that people who undertake the medical profession have a special calling in which
they are purposefully called to serve others. This is due to the fact that most of the people cannot
stand the sight of blood and the process of conducting surgical operations. This is then
supposedly left to the special ones who can be able to withstand bloody sites and other disturbing
pictures. Furthermore, there is the issue of medical remuneration which is a critical part of the
profession. The remuneration that the heath workforce in the medical field get is viewed to be
relatively low as compared to the kind of work that they do.in fact, most of them are being paid
well below some of the other professions which are deemed to be much easy. This has resulted in
most of the medical professionals opting to venture in to private practice. They have started their
own medical health centers which have resulted in the government facilities which offer services
to a large number of the population without the required workforce. The private institutions
charged very high prices and therefore most of the citizens cannot afford their services. This
brings about congestion in the public hospitals which offer their services at a cheaper rate
(Grover, A., Orlowski, & Erikson, 2016). There have been spirited efforts to try and address the
issue but this has not succeeded well due to the lack of the involvement of all the stakeholders in
the medical profession. The alternative of addressing this issue faces the constraint of the lack of
willingness of the students to take up the medical discipline as their career of choice. The risk of
not solving this issuer lies in the fact that the patients will continue to suffer as they seek medical
attention and also the number of deaths that may be associated with the lack of enough staff to
deal with the patients may increase significantly ( Hay,Mercer, Lichtwark, Tran, Hodgson,
Aretz, & Gorman, 2017).
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