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Theme: Health Human Resources
Project: 2-3b: Employment patterns among Ontario’s
rehabilitation professionals: Physiotherapists.
Project Leads:
Molly Verrier & Michel Landry
Synopsis of Project:
Projects 2-2 and 2-3 will conduct similar analyses, by sub-sector and sub-speciality, for the period 1993-2005, within the health professions of medical laboratory technology, respiratory therapy, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy; we are pleased that the four regulatory colleges are partners/collaborators in this study. The analytical methods will be identical to those employed in Project 2-1. To achieve efficiencies, the core staff will perform the data linkage and analysis in partnership with the team members. The regulatory colleges have assured us that they have the data, that the linkages are feasible, and that they are eager to conduct these analyses. The main difference we expect is that sub-sectors will be defined differently in the various professions. Based on previous studies involving analyzing changes in the financing and delivery of physiotherapy services in Ontario, including surveys of PTs and OTs in various sub-sectors, we also hypothesize that there are likely to be considerable differences in the activities of workers in hospitals, and in the community.
The questions being asked are: How has the number and proportion of MLTs, OTs, PTs and RTs working in Ontario and eligible but not currently working, changed? Do these trends and patterns vary by: age group, sub-specialities within each profession, and sub-sector? How has the shift of care from institutions to the community affected the number working, whether they are full time/part time/casual, and their likelihood of continuing to work in that profession, and in various sub-sectors? This work will be augmented by the survey analysis in Project 2-4.
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