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IJE Advance Access originally published online on January 17, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(1):53-60; doi:10.1093/ije/dym294
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Cohort Profile: The Nurses and Midwives e-Cohort Study—A Novel Electronic Longitudinal Study

Catherine Turner1,*, Chris Bain2, Philip J Schluter3, Emily Yorkston1, Fiona Bogossian1, Rod McClure4, Annette Huntington5 and the Nurses and Midwives e-cohort Group{dagger}

1School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
2School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
3Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand.
4Accident Research Centre, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
5School of Health Sciences, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.

* Corresponding author. School of Nursing & Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Room 228 Edith Cavell Building, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD4029, Australia. E-mail: catherine.turner@uq.edu.au

Accepted 19 December 2007

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   How did the study come about?
 
Nurses and midwives comprise the largest professional group in most national health systems, so shortfalls in numbers can have a substantial impact on health care delivery. A scarcity of human resources in health has been internationally recognized and has led the International Council of Nurses to launch the Global Workforce Project in 2004, and the World Health Organization to announce the Health Workforce Decade 2006–15 in 2006.1,2 Efforts to address workforce needs through coherent workforce planning and policy setting are hampered by the complexity of predicting the supply of and demand for nurses and midwives, and the challenges associated with understanding drivers of workforce retention.3 Available workforce descriptors among regulatory authorities vary considerably; and collections are mostly cross-sectional, frequently incomplete and typically limited to administrative databases. In Australia and New Zealand, workforce issues include the migration of staff between states and countries, and critical personnel shortages in rural and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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