Papers collected in this volume were prepared for and presented at a conference designed to (1) develop improved information on the status of women as health care providers in the United States and selected countries and (2) provide for consideration by an international audience, strategies used in other countries to improve the status and…

The document is a collection of six papers on key problems in health manpower which were presented at a symposium during the 1974 spring meeting of the Institute of Medicine. A seventh paper provides a summary of the major themes at the conclusion of the program. All of the symposium papers deal with the principal manpower issues of supply,…

The symposium summary presents the opening remarks of the meeting and nine papers which focus on defining manpower research within the context of educational program planning and decision making and include detailed analyses of the supply and demand of selected occupations. The papers are: "Manpower Research and Information, An Educational…