The manpower problem in international health

Medex: a New Approach to the Global Health Manpower Problem’

How to make health services available and accessible is a problem that confronts highly industrialized countries as well as developing nations. Although such nations may differ greatly, they have many points in common with respect to the availability of appropriate health care services. There is a shortage of health manpower in most countries of the world. What is frequently overlooked, however...

Trends in health manpower.

Health manpower in the medical marketplace.

Health education manpower in the United States.

Problems in collection of uniform data on health education manpower on a continuing basis are discussed. Sources of data on current health education manpower projections for future needs are reviewed. Possible directions for improving manpower planning in this field are cited.

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...