Psychiatric Manpower in Canada

Optimal manpower recruitment by stochastic programming in graded manpower systems

Human resource is one of the most effective resources in the development of any organization or a Nation. Optimal utilization of manpower is a pivotal challenge to a manager of a dynamic management system. Achieving the objectives by meeting the constraints on various feasibilities is the core problem before statisticians, model developers and OR scientists. In this paper we develop a model wit...

Manpower shortage in rheumatology.

Psychiatric epidemiology in Canada and the CCHS study.

T he field of psychiatric epidemiology has a long, albeit often neglected, history—one that antedates the beginning of psychoanalysis. Klerman (1) and Weissman (2) have outlined 5 “generations” of epidemiologic research. The first dates back to 1885, when Jarvis (3) used hospital records and key informants in a Massachusetts town to determine the prevalence of treated and untreated mental disor...

Trends in health manpower.

Manpower in pathology 1969-1975.

An attempt has been made to assess for the period 1969-1975 the demand for consultant pathologists and the adequacy of the trainee cadre to fulfil this demand. In addition new data have been acquired on the way in which pathologists apportion their time between specialties and the availability of specialist opinion and other derived information. The demand for consultants in all specialties, wi...