Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1965; Volume 32, Number 6, Year 1965, Pages 809-821: Protective Antigens from El Tor Vibrios ; ThePreparation and Properties of a Purified Protective Antigen from an El Tor Vibrio (Ogawa ' Subtype)

By Yoshikazu Watanabe

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Title:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1965; Volume 32, Number 6, Year 1965, Pages 809-821: Protective Antigens from El Tor Vibrios ; ThePreparation and Properties of a Purified Protective Antigen from an El Tor Vibrio (Ogawa ' Subtype)
Author:	Yoshikazu Watanabe
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Watanabe, Y. (n.d.). Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1965; Volume 32, Number 6, Year 1965, Pages 809-821. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
A Working Group met at the National School of Public Health, Lisbon, from 26 to 29 September 1978 to discuss the development of mathematical models that simulate the interactions between the input, structure and output of health services and to consider the potential for their routine use in health management, including planning and evaluation. The meeting, convened by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs of Portugal, was attended by 15 temporary advisers from 11 countries, 1 consultant and 3 staff members of WHO. (A list of participants is annexed.) The importance of management and organization in the delivery of health care was emphasized in several of the resolutions adopted by the Thirty-first World Health Assembly in May 1978, especially resolution WHA31.43 (I). The major purpose of these resolutions was to promote the development of better and more integrated management structures and processes by such approaches as country health programming, health programme evaluation and the use of health information systems.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page 1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 . Models: definitions and types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 Definition of models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 The descriptive model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 The explanatory model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4 Innovative model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 . The present situation. problems and causes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.1 The present situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2 Theoretical problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3 Practical problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 . A selection of planning models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1 Macro-models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.2 Submodels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.3 Operational models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 5 . Simulation models and management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5.1 Policy formulation and planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.2 Systems view of organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.3 Modelling as a teaching tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 6 . Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 6.1 Action at the national level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 6.2 Action at the international level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21