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  • Title: Manpower mix for health services: a prescriptive regional planning model.
    Author: Shuman LJ, Young JP, Naddor E.
    Journal: Health Serv Res; 1971; 6(2):103-19. PubMed ID: 5095652.
    Abstract:
    A model is formulated to determine the mix of manpower and technology needed to provide health services of acceptable quality at a minimum total cost to the community. Total costs include both the direct costs associated with providing the services and with developing additional manpower and the indirect costs (shortage costs) resulting from not providing needed services. The model is applied to a hypothetical neighborhood health center, and its sensitivity to alternative policies is investigated by cost-benefit analyses. Possible extensions of the model to include dynamic elements in health delivery systems are discussed, as is its adaptation for use in hospital planning, with a changed objective function.
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