Health Workforce Research

HEALTHY PROFESSIONAL WORKERS

Selected Presentations:

Bourgeault, I.L. Psychological Health & Safety of Academic Work, CAUT Forum for Senior Grievance Officers, December 8, 2018.
Bourgeault, I.L., (2018) Healthy Professional Knowledge Workers: Examining the Gendered Nature of Mental Health Issues, Leaves of Absence and Return to Work Experiences from a Comparative Perspective. International Sociology Association Congress, Toronto, July.

Key Publications:

Bourgeault, I., Park, J., Kohen, Atanackovic, J., James, Y. (2021) A Gendered Analysis of Work, Stress and Mental Health, Among Professional and Non-Professional Workers. Professions and Professionalism. 11(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/pp.4029
Covell, C.L., Sands, S.R., Ingraham, K. M. Lavoie-Tremblay, S. Price, C. Reichert & Bourgeault, I. (2020) Mapping the peer-reviewed literature on accommodating nurses’ return to work after leaves of absence for mental health issues: a scoping review. Human Resources for Health 18, 36, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-020-00478-8

Selected Presentations:

Bourgeault, I.L. The Impact of Changes in Scopes of Practice in Canada, OECD Workshop on Skills Mix and Scopes of Practice, Paris, June, 2016.
Bourgeault, I.L. Team-Based Models of Care: Impact on Patients, Providers & Health Systems. FPT Committee on Health Workforce Workshop on Team-Based Models of Care, Ottawa, Feb., 2015

Key Publications:

Bourgeault, I.L. (forthcoming) Professions Allied to Medicine. In Monahan, L., & Gabe, J. (Eds.), Key Concepts in Medical Sociology. 3rd Edition. (p.282-287). London: Sage.
Bourgeault, I.L., Bond, C., Mahrer-Imhof, R., Budde, H., Rechel, B., & Maier, C. (forthcoming) Caring for people with acute conditions: transitional care, relocation of care and new division of work. In Claudia Maier, Matthias Wismar & Marieke Kroezen (Eds.), Improving primary and chronic care: skill mix innovations and implementation. World Health Organization, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.
Bourgeault, I.L. (forthcoming) Professions Allied to Medicine. In Monahan, L., & Gabe, J. (Eds.), Key Concepts in Medical Sociology. 3rd Edition. (p.282-287). London: Sage.
Bourgeault, I.L. & Merritt, K. (2015) Deploying Health Human Resources: Scopes of Practice, Skill-Mix and Shifting Tasks in the Provision of Health Care. In Kuhlmann, E., Blank, R.H., Bourgeault, I.L. & Wendt, C. The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance: Palgrave.

Selected Presentations:

Bourgeault, I.L., (2019) Collecting Health Workforce Data for Planning is in the Public Interest, Professional Standards Authority Conference, London, United Kingdom, March 7.
Bourgeault, I.L., Demers, C., Chamberland, C., & Simkin, S. (2017) Core Competencies of the Human Resources for Health Field: Mapping Skills in Policy, Planning and Management. Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, Dublin, Ireland.
Bourgeault, I.L. Can We Learn from Other Countries? Can Other Countries Learn from Us? Centre for Health Services and Policy Research Annual Conference, Vancouver April, 2016

Key Publications:

Bourgeault, I.L. (Ed.), (2021) Introduction to the Health Workforce in Canada. Canadian Health Workforce Network.
Bourgeault, I.L., Chamberland-Rowe, C., & Simkin, S. (2021) Co-developing an Integrated Primary Care Workforce Plan at the Regional Level: An Introductory Overview and Commentary. Human Resources for Health
Bourgeault, I.L., Claudia B. Maier, Marjolein Dieleman, Jane Ball, Adrien MacKenzie, Susan Nancarrow, Gustavo Nigenda, Mohsin Sidat. (2020) The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to develop more sustainable health workforces Human Resources for Health.
Bourgeault, I.L. (2018) Creating a Research Career Pathway in Health Workforce Research. In N. Edwards & S. Roelofs (Eds.) Creating a Research Career: An Essential Process for a Successful Research Career. P. 95-120.

Best, A., Berland, A., Greenhalgh, T., Bourgeault, I.L., Saul, J., & Barker, B. (2018) Networks as systems: A case study of the World Health Organisation’s Global Health Workforce Alliance. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 32, 1, 9-24. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/JHOM-06-2017-0129 .
Hedden, L., Barer, M., McGrail, K., Law, M., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2017). Is increasing physician supply the key to solving access/provision challenges? A cautionary tale from British Columbia. Health Affairs, 36(11). http://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0014
Bourgeault, I., Benoit, C., & Hirschkorn, K. (2009) Comparative perspectives on professional groups: Current issues and critical debates. Current Sociology, 57(4) 475-485.
Bourgeault, I., & Mulvale, G. (2006) Collaborative health care teams in Canada and the U.S.: Confronting the structural embeddedness of medical dominance. Special Issue of Health Sociology Review on Medical Dominance (invited). 15(5) December, 481-495.
Bourgeault, I.L., Luce, J., & MacDonald, M. (2006) The caring dilemma in midwifery: balancing the needs of midwives and clients in a continuity of care model of practice. Community, Work and Family. 9(4), 389-406.