Health manpower planning : methods and strategies for the maintenance of standards and for cost-control / Compiled by Frans C.A. Jaspers, Alvin R. Tarlov and Eric L. Vrijland.

previously published in 1983

"Proceedings of a European Symposium held in the University of Limburg, Maastricht, the Netherlands, April 14-16, 1982 ... organized by the Dutch and Swedish associations of junior hospital doctors (LVAG and SYLF), and the Faculty of Medicine of the University Limburg at Maastricht, the Netherlands."
Includes bibliographical references.

includes bibliographical references and index.

Opening Session.- Welcome Address and Introduction.- Official Opening of the Symposium by the Minister of Health and Environmental Protection.- Planning Health Manpower for Health for All by the Year 2000.- Welcome Address by the Coordinating Secretary of the Permanent Working Group of European Junior Hospital Doctors (PWG).- Session I: Importance of Manpower Planning.- Manpower Planning as a European Problem and a Task for Europe: the Need for International Legislation.- Manpower Planning in Industrial Organizations and as a Necessity for Industrial Innovation.- A Conceptual Framework for Health Manpower Planning.- Relationship of Health Care and Health Workers Training for Manpower Planning.- Session II: Realities in Manpower Planning in Europe.- Medical Manpower Planning in the Federal Republic of Germany.- Medical Manpower Planning in The Netherlands.- Medical Manpower Planning in France.- Medical Manpower Planning in the United Kingdom.- Medical Manpower Planning in Sweden.- General Discussion.- Session III: Methods and Strategies in Manpower Planning.- Health Manpower Planning in Industrialized Countries.- Planning of Medical Manpower for Health Care in the light of a Changing Employment Market.- Consequences of Manpower Planning for Educational Systems in Europe.- Session IV: Approaches to the Role of Government in Manpower Planning.- The Role of Government in Health Manpower Planning in Hungary.- The Role of Government in Health Manpower Planning in Canada.- Problems Facing Europe.- General Discussion.- Session V: Workshops.- Task and Design of the Workshops.- Workshop 1: Definition of the Needs.- Workshop 2: Development of the Health Care System.- Workshop 3: Development of the Educational System.- Workshop 4: Interrelationship between the Health Care System and the Educational System.- Workshop 5: Relationship between Individual Career Planning and Health Manpower Planning.- Conclusions and Recommendations.- Members of the Programme Committee.- Members of the Organizing Committee.- Contributors.- Sponsors.

The Dutch ministries of Education and Sciences and of Health and Environmental Protection organized a seminar on 'Cooperation of Health Care and Education at Regional Level, Responsibilities and Cost Alloca­ tion' (1978, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands).