Indicator Metadata

Health Care Providers Employed in Direct Care by Type of Provider, Health Region and Jurisdiction

Health Care Providers in Direct Care by Health Region and Jurisdiction

Number of health care providers employed in the profession and working in direct care, by type of provider, health region and jurisdiction

Number of health care providers employed in the profession and working in direct care in each health region and jurisdiction

Unit of Analysis: Service provider

Place of service

Number - Number; number of health care providers by health region or jurisdiction

None

Not applicable

Description:
None

Description:
Number of health care providers employed in the profession and working in direct care, by health region
Inclusions:

• Active registered health care providers employed in the profession and working in direct care.

Additional inclusion criteria vary by type of provider.

Exclusions:

• Health care providers not employed in the profession.
• Health care providers employed in education, research and administration.
• Inactive registrants or health care providers who did not register in a Canadian province or territory.

Additional exclusion criteria vary by type of provider.

Based on World Health Organization (WHO) National Health Workforce Accounts indicator 1-12: Density of Active Health Workers in Different Regions (by Regional Typology, by Cadre), this indicator provides information on the number and distribution of health workers. Density can be calculated by dividing the number of health care providers employed in direct care by the population estimates; please see the CIHI indicator Health Care Providers Employed in Direct Care per 100,000 Population, by Health Region and Jurisdiction.

A measure of access to health care providers

A low or high number may be desirable; interpretations should be evaluated alongside other relevant data (e.g., population need, models of care, mix of health care providers).

Health System Inputs and Characteristics: Efficient allocation of resources

Not applicable

WHO: Health worker density multiplied by population estimates

World Health Organization. National Health Workforce Accounts: A Handbook. 2016.

World Health Organization. Global Strategy on Health Resources for Health: Workforce 2030. 2016.

HWDB

Type of Year:

First Available Year:
2010
Last Available Year:
2019

All provinces/territories

National, Province/Territory, Region, Provider; may be further aggregated by age, highest level of education, setting of employment, urban/rural/remote, etc.

Every year

Web Tool:
Health workforce data tables
URL: https://www.cihi.ca/en/health-workforce

Not applicable

The methodology used to calculate population estimates may vary for different countries. Caution should be used when comparing results across countries.

Statistics reported may differ from those reported by other organizations due to differences in data collection and reporting methodologies.

Issues of under- and/or over-coverage may vary by type of provider.

Data is not necessarily available for each province and territory for each type of provider.

Assignment of postal codes to health regions can change over time.

Varies by type of provider

Please note that the available data years, geographic coverage, reporting level/disaggregation and update frequency vary by type of provider.

“Available data year” can refer to data year (for nurses) or to reporting year (for occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists).