Introduction A sudden surge in hospital admissions in public hospital during influenza peak season has been a challenge to healthcare and manpower planning. In Hong Kong, the timing of influenza peak seasons are variable and early short-term indication of possible surge may facilitate preparedness which could be translated into strategies such as early discharge or reallocation of extra hospita...

THE STRUCTURE OF A MODEL / 305 CLASSIFICATIONS OF MODELS / 306 COMMON MODELING TECHNIQUES I 307 Flow (harts / 307 Graph or Network Models / 309 PERT Planning Method / 312 Linear Programming Models / 313 Queueing Models / 314 Arrival Process / 314 Queue Structure / 315 Service System / 315 Measures of Performance / 315 Simulation Models / 316 Case Study 1 : Emergency Service Simulation Model / 3...

The Rand Corporation do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the sponsors of Rand research. manpower issues assuming even greater importance than heretofore in defense planning and budgeting, it is the purpose of this research program to develop broad strategies and specific solutions for dealing with present and future military manpower problems. The goals include the developmen...

Introduction High nursing workload variability in intensive care units makes the planning of nursing manpower problematic. Nevertheless measuring nursing workload is essential for the internest of nurses, the safety of patients and the efficience of using the financial resources. Thereby its important to measure it using valid and reliable tool. Many authors has described Nursing Activities Sco...

In the past years, the scale of software is growing quickly as more and more organizations begin to deploy their business on Internet. As a result, requirement analysis becomes a challenging issue and conventional approaches might significantly increase the costs of software development. Therefore, automatic requirement analysis techniques have attract more and more attentions, which allows for...

With the development of information technology, the scale of current software is growing dramatically. This motivates the needs of techniques for intelligent software requirements engineering, which allows for modeling and analyzing requirements formally, rapidly and automatically, avoiding mistakes made by misunderstanding between engineers and users, and saving lots of time and manpower. In t...

BACKGROUND Planning for human resources for health (HRH) is central to health systems strengthening around the world, including in the Caribbean and Jamaica. In an effort to align Jamaica's health workforce with the changing health needs of its people, a partnership was established between Jamaican and Canadian partners. The purpose of the work described in this paper is to describe the develop...

Despite encouraging progress towards the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)— including improved child mortality and coverage of antiretroviral treatment and malaria interventions— many health systems in low-income and middle-income countries face structural challenges. Health workforce inadequacies are regarded as a major impediment, especially for maternal mortality targ...

Supplying required human resource is one of the strategic goals of an organization. Therefore, organizations plan and predict the required human resources in order to prevent this problem. Present study using practical approach seeks to assist organizations to achieve their various goals in human resources planning. The designed model in this study clarifies vague, inaccurate, and fuzzy exp...