World Health Organization Publication : 924154130X, (Ch1-Ch6): Health Manpower Planning

By T. L. Hall

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Title:	World Health Organization Publication : 924154130X, (Ch1-Ch6): Health Manpower Planning
Author:	T. L. Hall
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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


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
With growing awareness not only that access to health care is a basic human right but that health is a valuable national asset, a primary aim of social development, and an essential means to sound economic and social progress, the crucial question that decision-makers at the highest level have to consider is not whether their country can afford to improve health services but whether it can afford not to do so. A parallel realization is tha.t achieving and maintaining health in a society is a task on a much broader scale than medical care and involves knowledge and skills beyond thlose available within the health sector and most certainly beyond those available within the health team as traditionally conceived and constituted. This is in no way to be interpreted as implying that the health sector did not, cannot, or should not! play a crucial role in a country's efforts to bring health to its people. It implies merely that, with a closer look at the past, a realistic view of the future, and a strong resolve to eliminate confl:icts of interest, leaders in the health sector can achieve a more positive role for that sector-whose only justification is the improvement of health andl whose survival will depend on its capacity to bring about such an improvement.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Introduction -- D . Tejada-de-Rivero . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 1 . Health manpower planning: an overview . A . Mejia & T . Fulop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 2 . The health manpower process -- A . Mejia . . . . . . . . .31 3. Demand -- T. L . Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 4 . Supply -- T . L . Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 5. Productivity -- T. D . Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 6 . Manpower production: implications for planners - F . M . Katz 7 . Manpower distribution . .A. Mejia, T . L . Hall & E . Royston 8 . Primary health care by non.. physicians - D . Flahault 9 . Planning aspects of selected manpower categories: I . Nursing personnel - R . Bergman . . . . . . . . . . .133 I1 . Midwifery personnel -. M . de L . Verderese . . . . . . .147 111 . Family planning personnel - W . L . Barton . . . . . . .177 IV . Dental personnel - D., E . Barnies . . . . . . . . . . .201 V . Environmental health personnel - G . Etienne . . . . . . 10 . International migration of professional health manpower . A . Mejia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . Economics of health manpower planning . D . Ray & R . Andreano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . Manpower planning and the political process . T . L . Hall & B . M . Kleczko~vski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .