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How to look at the dimension “quantity”?
The quantity could be expressed in working full time equivalents or in headcount.
It’s also important to distinguish the “professionally active” workforce and the “licensed to practice” workforce.
To have updated data on the quantity of health professionals currently active, a reliable forecasting is also a necessary condition.
How to collect data?
It’s common to use different sources for data collection, also because mainly the data useful for the forecasting exercise are usually not collected with planning purposes.
If the forecasting model requires data not available from any sources, use qualitative methodologies to gather the information needed (surveys, Delphi, estimations).
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