Observations on a rural health manpower project

Trends in health manpower.

Pedodontic manpower and productivity in North Carolina--a pilot project.

A pedodontic manpower and productivity pilot project was conducted utilizing the pedodontic private practitioners of North Carolina. The responses demonstrated a traditional pedodontic practice in the services performed even though the mean age of the practitioners was fair]y young. Most practitioners had a single office located in a fluoridated area. Productivity results indicated that relativ...

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...

Improving Manpower Planning in Health Care

In many countries manpower problems in the field of health care are regular items on the agenda of policy makers. To avoid mismatches between demand of care and supply of care on national and regional levels, manpower planning models and methods are used to determine adequate numbers of medical specialists to fulfil the future demand of care. A key question is which factors should be included i...

Health manpower in the medical marketplace.