Less than 10 years ago, conventional wisdom taught that there was an oversupply of specialists in a managed care environment and that the majority of needs in cardiovascular prevention and care could be provided by generalists. Healthcare planners called for a reduction in specialty training,1–4 and a number of cardiovascular training programs went through a period of downsizing. The demand for...

‘There is no overwhelming evidence of a significant expansion in this type of employment in the 1980s. The only employment forms for which the evidence of expansion is unambiguous are self-employment and part-time employment. The latter is in any case primarily both permanent and direct employment. Temporary and contract work, homeworking and black economy work are the employment forms where ex...

An attempt has been made to assess for the period 1969-1975 the demand for consultant pathologists and the adequacy of the trainee cadre to fulfil this demand. In addition new data have been acquired on the way in which pathologists apportion their time between specialties and the availability of specialist opinion and other derived information. The demand for consultants in all specialties, wi...

a not-for-profit research organization dedicated to the study of the supply, demand, distribution, education, and use of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals and paraprofessionals. PREFACE The success of the health care system is dependent on qualified personnel. Access to care, quality of care, and costs of care are all affected by the availability of properly educated and traine...

DISCLOSURES: NIL ABSTRACT Aims: To compare the anaesthesia and surgical manpower in four tertiary hospitals in Nigeria and assess the anaesthesia work load in those institutions; to determine the per capita anaesthetist manpower in Nigeria (anaesthesia providers per 100,000 population) and compare with what obtains in other regions of the world. Materials and Methods: This is a multicentre stud...

As I read the paper by Jane Underwood and colleagues on the National Community Health Nursing Study, published in the September/October 2009 issue of the CJPH,1 I could not help asking myself the question, “Where are the students and new graduates in community health?” The study, based on the analysis of workforce data, a survey and focus groups with urban and rural managers and frontline publi...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the total disease burden in China but the number, distribution and characteristics of the mental health professionals available to provide services for mentally ill individuals is unknown. AIM Describe the distribution and characteristics of medical professionals working in mental health facilities around China. METHODS Inf...

Background: The quantity and quality of manpower, especially in health systems, are major factors affecting speed of service delivery, cost, and accuracy, or, in other words, the quality of service. Objective: This study purposed to investigate the manpower required in various units of the laboratory at Shiraz Faghihi Hospital. Methods</stro...