Medical manpower two years on.

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...

Medical manpower mismanagement: mirage or miracle?

Health manpower in the medical marketplace.

Utilisation of specialist medical manpower in Malaysia.

One hundred and twenty specialists from the Ministry of Health, the Universities and the private sector provided information on 4,802 patients seen over a total of two hundred and forty working days. This information was used to classify the patients into four categories based on a disease complexity classification. Each specialist's perception on the appropriateness of utilisation of his exper...

On Two-Graded Manpower Model with Non-Homogeneous Poisson Recruitments

Manpower Planning is the prerequisite for efficient management of any organization. The stability of the graded structure in corporate and government offices plays a dominant role for efficient planning and control of human resources. The constituent components of a manpower planning model are recruitment process, promotion process and leaving process. This paper addresses a two-graded manpower...