A world program for health manpower

Trends in health manpower.

Health manpower: challenge for the Eighties.

It was Edmund Burke who, after the French Revolution, wrote, "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." I suppose that the presence of an economist on this program-in fact of two economists-might lead some to contend that the glory of medicine is similarly extinguished. There are in fact thos...

A Model for Manpower Management

A model for manpower management is presented based upon the study of a large technical department of a corporation. The model can be used in an optimization mode to determine recruiting plans, given manning needs, and in a simulation mode to project the results of changes in salary structure or advancement policies. The model explicitly recognizes different levels of performance at each job lev...

Health Manpower: Issues and Goals in Canada1

Each of the countries of the Americas probably has a different set of problems and priorities in health manpower. One hopes, however, that there is sufficient common ground to enable us to learn by sharing our experiences, if for no other reason than to avoid repeating each other’s mistakes. To my knowledge, Canada does not have the answers to the really fundamental questions of , health manpow...

A world-class program.

It is said that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish you feed him for a lifetime. In the spirit of this adage, the International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH) program trains health scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, toxicologists, engineers, industrial hygienists, chemists, and allied health workers from de...