Medical labour force 2007

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Release Date: 16 Oct 2009

Topic: Workforce

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2009) Medical labour force 2007, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2009). Medical labour force 2007. Canberra: AIHW.

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The supply of employed medical practitioners increased between 2003 and 2007, from 279 to 305 full-time equivalent practitioners per 100,000 population. This increase reflected a 20% rise in practitioner numbers. The gender balance continued to shift, with women making up 34% of practitioners in 2007 compared to 32% in 2003. The average hours worked by male practitioners declined from 47.5 to 45.9 hours, while hours worked by female practitioners remained steady at 37.6 hours.

ISSN: 1327-4309
ISBN: 978 1 74024 959 1
Cat. no: HWL 45
Pages: 72

Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols and other usages
- Summary
Body section
1. Introduction
  1. Medical practitioners in Australia
  2. AIHW Medical Labour Force Survey
  3. Other sources of data on medical practitioners
  4. Additional information
2. Registered medical practitioners
3. Medical practitioners employed in medicine
  1. Age and sex
  2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical practitioners
  3. Field of medicine
  4. Country of first medical qualification
  5. Working hours
  6. Work setting and sector
4. Supply of practitioners
  1. Overall supply
  2. Supply of clinicians
5. Regional comparisons
  1. Remoteness Areas
  2. States and territories
End matter
- Appendixes
  1. Explanatory notes on the AIHW Medical Labour Force Survey
    - Background
    - Method
    - Scope and coverage
    - Estimation procedures
    - Response rate
    - Treatment of multi-state registrations
    - Changes to 2007 survey
    - Data issues
  2. Medical practitioner registration numbers
    - Medical practitioner boards registration numbers
    - 'Area of need' medical practitioners
  3. Medicare data
    - General practitioner numbers
    - Comparison with AIHW Medical Labour Force Survey data
  4. National public hospital establishments data
  5. Additional information available from the AIHW website
    - Tables
    - Survey questionnaires
  6. Population estimates
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures

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