SKILLS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AS A TOOL FOR STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING

Strategic Health Workforce Planning

Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...

The RAFAELA system: a workforce planning tool for nurse staffing and human resource management.

The RAFAELA system was developed in Finland during the 1990s to help with the systematic and daily measurement of nursing intensity (NI) and allocation of nursing staff. The system has now been rolled out across almost all hospitals in Finland, and implementation has started elsewhere in Europe and Asia. This article describes the system, which aims to uphold staffing levels in accordance with ...

PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Family Planning A STRATEGIC PLANNING MODEL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF A FAMILY PLANNING SYSTEM,

s of Theses Supervised by Faculty of the Management Science Group

The Strategic Planning Index: A Tool for Measuring Strategic Planning Effectiveness

Kenya's Health Workforce Information System: A model of impact on strategic human resources policy, planning and management

OBJECTIVE Countries worldwide are challenged by health worker shortages, skill mix imbalances, and maldistribution. Human resources information systems (HRIS) are used to monitor and address these health workforce issues, but global understanding of such systems is minimal and baseline information regarding their scope and capability is practically non-existent. The Kenya Health Workforce Infor...