Guidelines for Analysis of Health Manpower Planning: Health Manpower Planning

摘要

This manual for health manpower planning in developing countries is the third volume in a series of works known collectively as the International Health Planning Methods Series. The series provides AID advisors and national health officials in developing countries with critically needed guidelines for incorporating health planning into national plans for economic development. Generally, an assessment model for health personnel planning in undeveloped countries is not available. This assessment manual provides a conceptual and methodological framework for the analyst and policy planner for the development and use of health personnel. Health manpower planning is a difficult task, affected by numerous variables. It is also a relatively long range task, since the health manpower supplies of the future must be developed through training and education opportunities years before new practitioners become active in the field. This manual discusses various methods of planning for the use of medical assistants and auxiliaries to provide primary health care in rural areas where it is difficult to attract or maintain full time physicians.