Chapter vii. recruitment and manpower. health manpower needs

Optimal manpower recruitment by stochastic programming in graded manpower systems

Human resource is one of the most effective resources in the development of any organization or a Nation. Optimal utilization of manpower is a pivotal challenge to a manager of a dynamic management system. Achieving the objectives by meeting the constraints on various feasibilities is the core problem before statisticians, model developers and OR scientists. In this paper we develop a model wit...

Trends in health manpower.

Medical manpower needs by the year 2000.

At independence in 1957 we had a total of 770 doctors with a doctor population ratio of 1:8091. In 1987 we had 5794 doctors registered and a markedly improved ratio of 1:2852 (Table I). Even if we were to aim for a modest 1:2000 ratio by the year 2000 when the population is estimated to rise to 22.5 million,' we will require to double our present number of doctors. We will need to register an a...

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...

Improving Manpower Planning in Health Care

In many countries manpower problems in the field of health care are regular items on the agenda of policy makers. To avoid mismatches between demand of care and supply of care on national and regional levels, manpower planning models and methods are used to determine adequate numbers of medical specialists to fulfil the future demand of care. A key question is which factors should be included i...