Consider these examples or identify another complex challenge:
 

• Lack of access to affordable, safe housing and sufficient, healthy food (two social determinants of health) that negatively impact physical and mental health

• Insufficient health funding to provide timely assessment, diagnosis and treatment

• Disconnected health system that is difficult to navigate, causes delays and increases costs

• Increase in emergency room visits due to shortage of primary health care providers (e.g. family physicians and nurse practitioners) and lack of funded team-based primary care

• Ability to attract and retain nurses in “direct” patient and client care roles

• Issues that impede attraction, retention and the well-being of personal support workers

• Unprecedented growth in the aging population will escalate health care usage and costs

• Insufficient funding for home and community health services, and respite support for significant others who provide care, to enable the elderly to age “in place”

• Upcoming Generative AI impact on human work roles across the health system.