BACKGROUND Previous studies have evaluated the effects of various health manpower policies but did not include full consideration of the effect of universal health insurance on physician re-distribution. This study examines the effects of implementing National Health Insurance (NHI) on the problem of geographic mal-distribution of health providers in Taiwan. METHODS Data on health providers a...

Achieving a balanced healthcare workforce requires health planners to adjust the supply of human resources (HHR). Mathematical programming models have been widely used assist such planning, but way uncertainty is usually considered in these entails methodological and practical issues often disregards radical yet plausible changes future. This study proposes new socio-technical methodology facto...

despite a renewed focus in the field of global health on strengthening health systems, inadequate attention has been directed to a key ingredient of high-performing health systems: management. we aimed to develop the argument that management – defined here as the process of achieving predetermined objectives through human, financial, and technical resources – is a cross-cutting function necessa...