Manpower for Better Health Services

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...

Manpower Governance in Health Services in India by Developing Information Technology Infrastructure in Health

Management of Knowledge workers in healthcare is one of the key challenges being tackled for delivering quality healthcare services . Faced with a global shortage of skilled health workers, even developed countries are struggling to build and maintain an optimum Knowledge workforce in healthcare. India too has been experiencing acute shortage particularly so in rural areas. This paper attempts ...

Women's health: potential for better coordination of services.

OBJECTIVE To determine the proportion of women attending a genitourinary medicine clinic (GUMC) who are in need of contraception and the proportion of women attending a family planning clinic (FPC) who may require screening or treatment for sexually transmitted disease (STD). DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING A large FPC (17,600 attendances by women a year) and a large GUMC (20,060 att...

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...