Guidelines for Health Manpower Planning
Guidelines for Health Manpower Planning

Author: P. Hornby

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Published: 1980

Total Pages: 374

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This course is intended for training health service managers, planners, and educators to apply the principles and methods of health manpower planning. It consists of 12 half-day sessions and is for use in a group learning setting such as a workshop or seminar. Each session contains the following: a summary of content; statement of the specific educational objectives of the session; the session structure; learning materials, including practical examples, covering the topic area directly linked to the educational objectives; reference list of additional background reading; and work exercises. Evaluation instruments provided are a pre-course questionnaire, daily evaluation of the session covered, and end-of-course questionnaire. Session topics are (1) Health Manpower Planning; (2) Ten Steps to Health Manpower Planning; (3) Health Manpower Situation Report on Existing Manpower and Services; (4) Future Supply of Manpower; (5) Manpower Requirements--Quantity, Quality, and Distribution; (6) Mismatches between Supply and Requirements; (7) Solving Mismatches; (8) Organizational and Management Problems; (9) Manpower Strategy and Outline Plan; (10) Detailed Health Manpower Development Plan; (11) Implementation and Monitoring; and (12) Concluding Session. An annotated bibliography cites 61 references on manpower planning activities applicable to developing countries. (YLB)

Reviewing Health Manpower Development
Reviewing Health Manpower Development

Author: Tamás Fülöp

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Published: 1987

Total Pages: 162

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This guide is intended to assist countries contemplating a comprehensive, action-oriented review of health labor force development to improve their national health systems. Various aspects of the health system infrastructure are examined (major components, organizational structure, coordinating mechanisms, sources of information, and interrelationships between health systems and labor force development). The chapter on health labor force planning examines national policies, mechanisms for assessing the current health labor force situation and planning improvements, planning methods, health labor force research, and information flows. The next chapter covers the general educational system; schools for training health personnel; and training for the various health occupations (including physicians, pharmacists, dentists and dental personnel, nurses and midwives, community health workers, diagnostic technicians and assistants, environmental health personnel, and health leaders and administrators). Authorization to practice, work conditions, personnel functions and administration, and various public and private sector health care providers are examined in a chapter on managing the health labor force. The final chapter outlines trends and makes recommendations concerning planning, production, management, international collaboration, and plans of action. Appendixes or annexes describe health labor force development in the Islamic Republic of Iran, New Zealand, the Republic of Rwanda, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. (MN)