Post-basic education training, age and gender of healthcare workers for elderly patients in Germany and Canada: A comparison.

IF 2.4 3区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Cognition Technology & Work Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI:10.3233/wor-213645

Zafar Mehdi, R. Nasser, H. Theobald

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BACKGROUND This study compares Canadian and German healthcare workers employment status and wages based on age, gender, and educational training. The German and Canadian healthcare systems are rarely compared, that if such a comparison between the two countries is available, can provide an insight of health workers employment status and how that might affect the wellbeing of elderly. OBJECTIVES The study investigates the relation of age, gender and post-basic training with annual employment and income of health care workers in Canada and Germany. METHODS Secondary data on age, gender, post-basic education training, employment status and average monthly wages/salary was obtained from the German Socioeconomic Panel and the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics data. The German dataset comprised 571 healthcare workers, including 219 nurses, 231 elder carers and 121 care assistants. The Canadian dataset comprised 2,580 healthcare workers, including 947 nurses, 493 elder carers and 1,140 care assistants. RESULTS Primarily, there was a strong relationship between post-basic training and wages for both the Canadian and German samples among elder carers and care assistants. Older healthcare workers (46 years old and above) were generally employed, and age had no predictive power on annual labor earnings. This difference in age was significant among the Canadian than the German nurses. Post-basic training had a significant relation with annual earnings and monthly wages in both the Canadian and German samples. CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that the socio-demographics of healthcare workers as age, gender and advanced training are associated with their employment opportunities, financial rewards, and better career opportunities. The relationship between demographic variables helps understand the relation of healthcare workers employment dispositions and how it might improve the quality of life of older people in nursing homes, hospitals and elderly private homes in Canada and Germany.

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德国和加拿大老年患者医护人员的基础教育后培训、年龄和性别比较

本研究比较了加拿大和德国医疗保健工作者的就业状况和工资，基于年龄、性别和教育培训。德国和加拿大的医疗保健系统很少被比较，如果两国之间有这样的比较，可以提供对卫生工作者就业状况以及这可能如何影响老年人福祉的见解。目的调查加拿大和德国卫生保健工作者的年龄、性别、基础后培训与年就业和收入的关系。方法从德国社会经济调查小组和加拿大劳动和收入动态调查数据中获得年龄、性别、基础教育后培训、就业状况和平均月工资等次要数据。德国的数据集包括571名医护人员，其中包括219名护士，231名老年护理人员和121名护理助理。加拿大的数据集包括2580名医护人员，其中包括947名护士、493名老年护理人员和1140名护理助理。结果在加拿大和德国的老年护理人员和护理助理中，基础后培训与工资之间存在很强的关系。一般雇用年龄较大的卫生保健工作者(46岁及以上)，年龄对年劳动收入没有预测力。加拿大护士的年龄差异比德国护士明显。在加拿大和德国的样本中，基础后培训与年收入和月工资有显著的关系。结论卫生保健工作者的年龄、性别、高学历等社会人口学特征与他们的就业机会、经济报酬和更好的职业发展机会有关。人口变量之间的关系有助于了解保健工作者就业倾向的关系，以及它如何改善加拿大和德国养老院、医院和老年私人住宅中老年人的生活质量。

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Cognition Technology & Work ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL-

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6.90

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Cognition, Technology & Work focuses on the practical issues of human interaction with technology within the context of work and, in particular, how human cognition affects, and is affected by, work and working conditions. The aim is to publish research that normally resides on the borderline between people, technology, and organisations. Including how people use information technology, how experience and expertise develop through work, and how incidents and accidents are due to the interaction between individual, technical and organisational factors. The target is thus the study of people at work from a cognitive systems engineering and socio-technical systems perspective. The most relevant working contexts of interest to CTW are those where the impact of modern technologies on people at work is particularly important for the users involved as well as for the effects on the environment and plants. Modern society has come to depend on the safe and efficient functioning of a multitude of technological systems as diverse as industrial production, transportation, communication, supply of energy, information and materials, health and finance.