Lost opportunities with Australia's health workforce?

@article{Leach2010LostOW,
  title={Lost opportunities with Australia's health workforce?},
  author={Matthew J. Leach and Leonie Segal and Esther May},
  journal={Medical Journal of Australia},
  year={2010},
  volume={193}
}
Concerns have been raised about the capacity of the health workforce to meet increasing future health care demands. Strategies aimed at improving workforce supply, at least in Australia, are focused heavily on education (ie, increasing the number of training places in key health professions) and recruitment (ie, recruiting overseas‐trained health care professionals). Data from the 2006 Australian Bureau of Statistics census of population and housing indicate that while many Australians hold… 
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