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Slephanie Pressel/CT. J'vI.s., OTR, 1:.1 Director, Education Division, 1'101'1'1. Issue Statement In several recent Nalionally Speak­ ing columns the authors have de­ scribed changes the occupational therapy profession is experiencing on a number of different fronts, including practice delivery sys­ tems, regulations governing health care, and so on. The profession is indeed undergoing changes,...

INTRODUCTION Forecasting the demand and supply of health manpower in an accurate manner makes appropriate planning possible. The aim of this paper was to review approaches and methods for health manpower forecasting and consequently propose the features that improve the effectiveness of this important process of health manpower planning. METHODS A literature review was conducted for studies p...

In the recent competitive business era of globalization it is truly tough to acquire the organizational effectiveness and efficiency without proper manpower planning and development practices. Manpower plays the dual role in operations, first, itself is an operative force and second, it makes the other forces operative and has a significant role in achieving the organizational effectiveness and...

This paper models how a nation’s military manpower system affects the decision to go to war. Manpower systems differ primarily in how they distribute costs: the volunteer system shares the war’s manpower costs broadly, while the draft forces a subset of the population to bear a disproportionate share of the load. This difference affects an officeand policy-motivated politician’s decision to go ...

This paper examines a longitudinal model of a manpower system in which the demands for effective manpower is determined by the state of a ! aiite Markov chain, and there are delays in training an adequate supply of effective manpower. We present an operational method of calculating optimal appointment policies. This calculation can in turn be used to find the equilibrium operating rules for the...