Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, The Australian National University School of Medicine and Psychology, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia; and.
Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis (CAPIPRA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Australas Psychiatry. 2024 Oct;32(5):446-449. doi: 10.1177/10398562241267138. Epub 2024 Aug 7.
Specialised mental healthcare delivery is highly labour intensive, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated workforce shortfalls. We explore the information on the mental healthcare labour supply in Australia from a health policy viewpoint. Our purpose is to stimulate discussion, further research and development of interventions.
The mental healthcare labour market has a number of features that make it prone to shortages and other distortions. These include: the labour-intensive nature of healthcare work;, long-training periods; that traditional policy levers like pay are only partially effective; as well as other challenges in retaining and recruiting mental health nurses and psychiatrists, especially in public mental health services. Further research is needed to develop and evaluate effective interventions.
专业的精神卫生保健服务需要大量人力,而 COVID-19 大流行加剧了劳动力短缺的情况。我们从卫生政策的角度探讨澳大利亚精神卫生保健劳动力供应方面的信息。我们的目的是激发讨论,进一步研究和开发干预措施。
精神卫生保健劳动力市场具有一些特点,使其容易出现短缺和其他扭曲。这些特点包括:医疗保健工作的劳动密集型性质;培训周期长;薪酬等传统政策手段仅部分有效;以及在保留和招聘精神科护士和精神科医生方面的其他挑战,尤其是在公共精神卫生服务中。需要进一步研究来开发和评估有效的干预措施。