Health Care Administration and Health Manpower in Japan.

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...

Health and welfare administration system in Japan.

The health and welfare administration system in Japan is based on the concept of "welfare nation" in the Constitution, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare has prime responsibility for general health and welfare administration. There are two levels of the prefectural governments and municipal governments with their own assemblies. The health centers and the welfare offices are special and fir...

Trends in health manpower.

Health Care Reform in Japan

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...