Health manpower out of balance : conflicts and prospects , conference papers, conclusions and recommendations, XX CIOMS Conference, 7-12 September 1986, Acapulco, Mexico / edited by Z. Bankowski and A. Mej'ia.
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TextPublication details: Geneva : CIOMS, 1987. Description: 210 pISBN: 9290360305Subject(s): Health manpower -- congressesNLM classification: W 76Abstract: The full report of a conference convened to explore the causes and consequences of the alarming oversupply of physicians and other health professionals now found in developing and developed countries alike. The book opens with a summary of studies conducted in 17 countries selected as representing a diversity of sociopolitical and economic conditions. These studies served to document the nature and extent of physician oversupply in individual countries while also uncovering factors contributing to the problem at both country and international levels. Other chapters portray the problems likely to be encountered in the 90s and give a detailed economic perspective on both the evolution of the oversupply of specialists and its implications for the economics of the health care system. The second half of the book takes an in-depth look at selected problems concerning either a geographical region or a particular health profession.
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The full report of a conference convened to explore the causes and consequences of the alarming oversupply of physicians and other health professionals now found in developing and developed countries alike. The book opens with a summary of studies conducted in 17 countries selected as representing a diversity of sociopolitical and economic conditions. These studies served to document the nature and extent of physician oversupply in individual countries while also uncovering factors contributing to the problem at both country and international levels. Other chapters portray the problems likely to be encountered in the 90s and give a detailed economic perspective on both the evolution of the oversupply of specialists and its implications for the economics of the health care system. The second half of the book takes an in-depth look at selected problems concerning either a geographical region or a particular health profession.
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