Slephanie Pressel/CT. J'vI.s., OTR, 1:.1 Director, Education Division, 1'101'1'1. Issue Statement In several recent Nalionally Speak­ ing columns the authors have de­ scribed changes the occupational therapy profession is experiencing on a number of different fronts, including practice delivery sys­ tems, regulations governing health care, and so on. The profession is indeed undergoing changes,...

The introduction of the new immigration rules will considerably reduce the number of overseas doctors available for junior hospital appointments over the next five years. To offset this sponsorship schemes should be offered by universities and colleges comprising training courses, entry to examinations, and hospital appointments, and training programmes should be adapted to make objectives atta...

With the improvement of people’s living standard, mass customization production model has been the trend of the furniture industry. A model of furniture product design and assembly for customization is proposed. It can decompose customers’ needs and transform them into homologous modules set in the structure tree. This process will not only save manpower and resources, but also improve enterpri...

INTRODUCTION Forecasting the demand and supply of health manpower in an accurate manner makes appropriate planning possible. The aim of this paper was to review approaches and methods for health manpower forecasting and consequently propose the features that improve the effectiveness of this important process of health manpower planning. METHODS A literature review was conducted for studies p...

In the recent competitive business era of globalization it is truly tough to acquire the organizational effectiveness and efficiency without proper manpower planning and development practices. Manpower plays the dual role in operations, first, itself is an operative force and second, it makes the other forces operative and has a significant role in achieving the organizational effectiveness and...

This paper models how a nation’s military manpower system affects the decision to go to war. Manpower systems differ primarily in how they distribute costs: the volunteer system shares the war’s manpower costs broadly, while the draft forces a subset of the population to bear a disproportionate share of the load. This difference affects an officeand policy-motivated politician’s decision to go ...

A pedodontic manpower and productivity pilot project was conducted utilizing the pedodontic private practitioners of North Carolina. The responses demonstrated a traditional pedodontic practice in the services performed even though the mean age of the practitioners was fair]y young. Most practitioners had a single office located in a fluoridated area. Productivity results indicated that relativ...