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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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.