The looming health-care crisis: A shortage of health workers would be disastrous
The looming health-care crisis: A shortage of health workers would be disastrous
By Colleen Grady
Assistant Professor,
Family Medicine, Queen’s
University, Ontario
The COVID-19 pandemic is not the only crisis facing the health-care system right now. Vaccines have begun to offer hope that the pandemic will eventually wane, but another potentially devastating issue looms: By 2030, the World Health Organization projects a worldwide workforce shortfall of about 18 million health-care workers, with deadly consequences for patients, economies and our communities. We must focus on those who deliver care if we have any chance of tackling this shortfall.
I recently completed a study that looked at how health-care leaders foster psychologically healthy and safe workplaces, specifically how they address the fourth aspect of the Quadruple Aim: caring for providers.
The Quadruple Aim builds upon a well supported trio of goals already adopted by health-care organizations worldwide — better health, better care experience and better value for money — by including the well-being of health-care providers as its fourth objective.
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