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Data Checklist
Before you get started using iHRIS Plan, you will want to collect data on the current health workforce as well as changes to the workforce and general population information to enter in the program. The health workforce data may be available from a human resources information system, such as iHRIS Manage or iHRIS Qualify, or from a recent survey or census. It is important to note the sources of all data you obtain for later verification and updating of the projections.
Note that you can enter the data by health worker cadre. For example, you will create a separate health worker pool for nurses, doctors and allied health professionals. You should collect current supply and target data for each cadre, rather than for the health workforce as a whole.
You will need to collect the following data to enter in the program:
- population of the country or region where you are generating projections
- annual population growth rate, expressed as a percentage of the total population
- total number of staff actually employed in each health worker cadre
- target number of positions needed in each health worker cadre for the starting year
- average annual salary of a health worker in each cadre
- average annual salary increase of a health worker in each cadre, expressed as a percentage of the average annual salary
The following are assumptions you can enter about changes to the health workforce over time. You do not need to have the data for all of these assumptions in order to create a projection, but the more data you enter, the more accurate your projection will be.
- average annual rate (expressed as a percentage) or total number of health workers exiting the health workforce each year due to retirement, by cadre
- average annual rate (expressed as a percentage) or total number of health workers exiting the health workforce each year due to death or illness, by cadre
- average annual rate (expressed as a percentage) or total number of health workers exiting the health workforce each year due to out migration, by cadre
- average annual rate (expressed as a percentage) or total number of health workers exiting the health workforce each year due to other reasons, by cadre
- average annual rate (expressed as a percentage) or total number of health workers entering the health workforce each year after graduating from a training program, by cadre
- average annual rate (expressed as a percentage) or total number of health workers entering the health workforce each year due to in migration, by cadre
- average annual rate (expressed as a percentage) or total number of health workers entering the health workforce each year due to recruitment or other reasons, by cadre
- average cost per worker of each intake or exit from the workforce, if applicable, such as training costs, recruitment costs or severance pay