healthcare Article Healthcare Human Resources: Trends and Demand in Saudi Arabia Khalid Alnowibet 1,*, Adel Abduljabbar 2, Shafiq Ahmad 3 , Latifah ALqasem 1, Nabil Alrajeh 4, Luigi Guiso 5, Mazin Zaindin 1 and Madhusudhan Varanasi 6 1 Department of Statistics and Operations Research, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;
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[email protected] Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of policies on the current status of Healthcare Human Resources (HHR) in Saudi Arabia and explores the initiatives that will be adopted to achieve Saudi Vision 2030. Retrospective time-series data from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and statistical year- Citation: Alnowibet, K.; books between 2003 and 2015 are analyzed to identify the impact of these policies on the health sector Abduljabbar, A.; Ahmad, S.; and the number of Saudi and non-Saudi physicians, nurses and allied health specialists employed by ALqasem, L.; Alrajeh, N.; Guiso, L.; MOH, Other Government Hospitals (OGH) and Private Sector Hospitals (PSH).