Manpower and training problems in family planning programs

Training nonphysicians in family planning services and a directory of training programs.

evaluation of men’s participation in group training of their wives in family planning programs

background : population growth is still a global concern. in spite of the decrease in population growth and conception rate, iran and the world population will grow in coming years. participation of men in contraception interventions to control population growth is of great importance. methods : this is a quasi-experimental study, in which the authors provided group training of contraceptive me...

Linking Strategic Planning and Management Manpower Planning

A well-developed strategic plan is merely an expensive report. It becomes a viable tool when it is placed in the hands of a manager competent to execute the plan. While the link between corporate strategic planning and management manpower planning seems obvious, a recent Business Week article suggests that companies are only now seriously trying to develop formal ties between the two systems. ̂ ...

Longitudinal Manpower Planning Models

Several manpower planning models are presented that exploit the longitudinal stability of manpower cohorts. The manpower planning process is described along with the problem of identifying and obtaining various types of longitudinal data. An infinite horizon linear program for calculating minimum cost manpower input plans is found to have a straightforward solution in a great many cases and to ...

Ten-year trends in the financing of family medicine training programs: considerations for planning and policy.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes physician training provisions to address the US primary care workforce shortage and maldistribution. Policymakers require current graduate medical education (GME) residency finance data to design and implement programs that increase primary care physicians. The University of Washington Family Medicine Network residencies ha...