It was in November 1983, Prof. Wig and I, published an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry titled “A training approach to enhance the availability of mental health manpower in a developing country”(Srinivasa Murthy and Wig,1983). This article presented the case for involving the peripheral health workers in providing essential mental health care, as a way of addressing the problem of ...

Managing innovation The development of health services world wide has been piecemeal and uncoordinated. Some control has been exerted over health service resources by controlling capital and by manpower strategies, but these are relatively crude methods largely concerned with control of resources and not with quality of health care provided. The main determinant of the quality of health care is...

Many western industrialized countries are currently suffering from a crisis in health human resources, one that involves a debate over the recruitment and licensing of foreign-trained doctors and nurses. The intense public policy interest in foreign-trained medical personnel, however, is not new. During the 1960s, western countries revised their immigration policies to focus on highly-trained p...

Each of the countries of the Americas probably has a different set of problems and priorities in health manpower. One hopes, however, that there is sufficient common ground to enable us to learn by sharing our experiences, if for no other reason than to avoid repeating each other’s mistakes. To my knowledge, Canada does not have the answers to the really fundamental questions of , health manpow...

The Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 addressed the need for access to timely, high-quality health care for veterans. Section 201 of the legislation called for an independent assessment of various aspects of veterans' health care. The RAND Corporation was tasked with an assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) current and projected health care capabilities and...

background & aim: prenatal care is a key strategy for achieving public health goals, primary healthcare objectives, and the millennium development goals. the aim of this study was to investigate the factors influencing the use of prenatal care services in order to design suitable interventions and promote the use of these services. methods:in this systematic quantitative literature review, stud...