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Conference Theme and Program Tracks

Conference Theme

Connecting Issues and People is the theme for Health Human Resources 2007. Bringing together key HHR stakeholders from across the health system, this conference aims to:

  • Develop a platform to strengthen relationships with key groups who have a vested interest in HHR research, management and planning;
  • Showcase the HHR work of provincial, territorial and federal ministries of health;
  • Showcase initiatives on HHR planning “in the trenches” at the national, provincial, regional and local levels;
  • Highlight how HHR data are used in current research, planning, management and knowledge translation;
  • Showcase work from researchers in HHR knowledge translation and exchange;
  • Highlight the state of HHR data—“where it’s at” and future directions—and identify gaps, common issues and challenges; and
  • Examine the interconnections between key HHR stakeholder groups to raise awareness of interdependencies (transforming data into information and knowledge).

Program Tracks

The conference program presentations will focus on the following areas:

Data, Research and Knowledge Translation

  • Identifying gaps in data and research
  • Demonstrating the value in using data and research
  • Fostering knowledge translation and exchange

Linking Education with HHR

  • Using a population-needs approach to make the connections between education and HHR planing and management.
  • Discussing changes in education requirements across the career-cycle continuum

Getting the Right Mix

  • Improving access and quality of care across the health care continuum through inter-collaborative practice and team-based approaches
  • Exploring change management in a dynamic health care environment
  • Exploring the dynamics between regulated and unregulated health care providers

Recruitment and Retention

  • Determining successful recruitment and retention strategies for individual health professionals (health, safe work environments, career support, practices to full competency)
  • Understanding global or system recruitment/retention strategies (ethical recruitment, sharing global resources, migration, distribution, urban/rural/remote issues)

Please consult the Program at a Glance for detailed times of keynote and plenary speakers, concurrent presentations and other conference events.