"Identifying Information: Name","Health Care Professionals Employed in Direct Care, by Place of Work and Type of Professional"
"Identifying Information: Short/Other Names","Health Care Professional Distribution by Place of Work"
"Identifying Information: Description","The number of health care professionals employed in the profession and working in direct care, by place of work/employment and type of professional"
"Background, Interpretation and Benchmarks: Rationale","Based on World Health Organization (WHO) National Health Workforce Accounts indicator 1-11: Percentage of Active Health Workers Employed by Facility Type, by Cadre, this indicator can help monitor the deployment of health personnel, examine retirement levels and plan for future needs."
"Background, Interpretation and Benchmarks: Interpretation","Descriptive information providing insight on the distribution of health care professionals by place of work.Interpretations should be evaluated alongside other relevant data (e.g., population need, models of care, mix of health care professionals in the setting)."
"Background, Interpretation and Benchmarks: HSP Framework Dimension","Health system resources"
"Background, Interpretation and Benchmarks: Areas of Need","Not applicable"
"Background, Interpretation and Benchmarks: Targets/Benchmarks","WHO: Percentage of active health workers employed by facility type, by cadre"
"Available Data Years","2011
 to 2020"
"Availability of Results: Geographic Coverage","All provinces/territories"
"Reporting Level/Disaggregation",National
"Result Updates: Indicator Results","Health workforce data tables"
"Update Frequency","Every year"
"Result Updates: Latest Results Update Date","August 2021"
"Result Updates: Updates","Not applicable"
"Indicator Calculation: Description","Number of health care professionals by place of workUnit of Analysis: Service provider"
"Indicator Calculation: Type of Measurement",Number
"Indicator Calculation: Number or Rate","Number; number of health care professionals by place of work"
"Denominator: Description:","Places of work (hospital, nursing home/long-term care facility, community, other)"
"Denominator: Inclusions:","All places of work as defined by each health care professional."
"Denominator: Exclusions:","Some places of work may not be included if employment of health care professionals is not in direct care."
"Numerator: Description:","Number of health care professionals employed in profession and working in direct care"
"Numerator: Inclusions:","Active registered health care professionals employed in the profession and working in direct care.Additional inclusion criteria vary by type of professional."
"Numerator: Exclusions:","Inactive registrants or health care professionals who did not register in a province or territory.Health care professionals who were not employed in the profession or unemployed.Additional exclusion criteria vary by type of professional."
"Method of Adjustment","Not applicable"
"Adjustment Applied",None
"Indicator Calculation: Geographic Assignment","Place of service"
"Data Sources: Other Data Source",HWDB
"Quality Statement: Caveats and Limitations","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 professional.Data is not necessarily available for each province and territory for each type of professional."
"Quality Statement: Trending Issues","Vary by type of professionalDefinitions for places of work may change over time and impact comparability."
"Quality Statement: Comments","Please note that the available data years, geographic coverage, reporting level/disaggregation and update frequency vary by type of professional.“Available data year” can refer to data year (for nurses) or to reporting year (for occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists)."
References,"World Health Organization. National Health Workforce Accounts: A Handbook. 2016.World Health Organization. Global Strategy on Health Resources for Health: Workforce 2030. 2016."