TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the Links Between Macro-Level Contextual Factors and Their Influence on Nursing Workforce Composition
AU - Squires, Allison
AU - Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Financial support was provided by grants from the National Institute on Aging T32AG000037 to H B-S. A New York University faculty development grant supported APS for this research.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - Research that links macro-level socioeconomic development variables to health care human resources workforce composition is scarce at best. The purpose of this study was to explore the links between nonnursing factors and nursing workforce composition through a secondary, descriptive analysis of year 2000, publicly available national nursing human resources data from Mexico. Building on previous research, the authors conducted multiple robust regression analysis by federal typing of nursing human resources from 31 Mexican states against macro-level socioeconomic development variables. Average education in a state was significantly associated in predicting all types of formally educated nurses in Mexico. Other results suggest that macro-level indicators have a different association with each type of nurse. Context may play a greater role in determining nursing workforce composition than previously thought. Further studies may help to explain differences both within and between countries.
AB - Research that links macro-level socioeconomic development variables to health care human resources workforce composition is scarce at best. The purpose of this study was to explore the links between nonnursing factors and nursing workforce composition through a secondary, descriptive analysis of year 2000, publicly available national nursing human resources data from Mexico. Building on previous research, the authors conducted multiple robust regression analysis by federal typing of nursing human resources from 31 Mexican states against macro-level socioeconomic development variables. Average education in a state was significantly associated in predicting all types of formally educated nurses in Mexico. Other results suggest that macro-level indicators have a different association with each type of nurse. Context may play a greater role in determining nursing workforce composition than previously thought. Further studies may help to explain differences both within and between countries.
KW - Mexico
KW - health care human resources
KW - nurse-to-population ratio
KW - nurses
KW - nursing
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U2 - 10.1177/1527154411431326
DO - 10.1177/1527154411431326
M3 - Article
C2 - 22513839
AN - SCOPUS:84859831360
SN - 1527-1544
VL - 12
SP - 215
EP - 223
JO - Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice
JF - Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice
IS - 4
ER -