The medical manpower shortage

Manpower shortage in rheumatology.

Addressing the United States It Manpower Shortage

The development of new hardware, end user-software and the globalization of the telecommunications industry has generated an acute demand and corresponding shortage for trained IT (information technology) professionals. The IT manpower shortage has become particularly crucial for U.S. domestic and U.S. multinational organizations where staffing shortfalls may generate a significant impact upon ...

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...

Health manpower in the medical marketplace.

A tradeoff between the losses caused by computer viruses and the risk of the manpower shortage

This article addresses the tradeoff between the losses caused by a new virus and the size of the team for developing an antivirus against the virus. First, an individual-level virus spreading model is proposed to capture the spreading process of the virus before the appearance of its natural enemy. On this basis, the tradeoff problem is modeled as a discrete optimization problem. Next, the infl...