Health workforce planning: brief historic route of Chilean policies

Strategic Health Workforce Planning

Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...

Policy brief: North Dakota Health Care Workforce: planning together to meet future health care needs.

A Brief but Historic Article of Siegel

T he twopaperspublishedbyCarl L. Siegel in 1942 were printed on ten consecutive pages in the October issue of the Annals of Mathematics. In one of these papers Siegel gave the first positive solution to a small denominator problem, and by doing so he showed that there was hope for a successful attack on one of the most important problems of the previous sixty years. It was a remarkable achievem...

Policy Brief : Capacity planning in health care

Towards best practice in national health workforce planning.

Health Workforce Australia (HWA) was established by the Council of Australian Governments through its 2008 National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform, as the national agency to progress health workforce reform and address the challenges of providing a skilled, innovative and flexible health workforce in Australia. The Australian Health Ministers' Conference commissio...