Models of Health workforce Planning – A Review

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...

Workforce Planning Models for Distribution Center Operations

Models for increasing the health workforce.

A stable human resource base in the health sector is critical to achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals. There is a severe quantitative and qualitative shortfall of healthcare professionals in South Africa, and the existing and future health workforce production is inadequate for our healthcare needs. The production model must include all healthcare disciplines because the quadru...

The trend of population aging and planning of health services for the elderly: A review study

Background & Aim: Ageing represents the accumulation of changes in a human being over time, and it is synonymous with the beginning of the age of 65.The purpose of this paper is to provide a picture of the growth of the elderly population in the world and planning and policies to provide health services to this category of the population. Methods: This study was conducted to review. There were...

Managing a national radiation oncologist workforce: a workforce planning model.

PURPOSE The specialty of radiation oncology has experienced significant workforce planning challenges in many countries. Our purpose was to develop and validate a workforce-planning model that would forecast the balance between supply of, and demand for, radiation oncologists in Canada over a minimum 10-year time frame, to identify the model parameters that most influenced this balance, and to ...