Defining the role of the homemaker/home health aide, the volume presents a comprehensive treatment of the principles and procedures for recruiting, training, and directing the activities of these essential health workers. In addition to providing an analysis of the contribution that the homemaker/home health aide can make to patient care, the book…

Through Medicaid, the Health Maintenance Organization Act (HMO), and Prepaid Health Programs (PHP) approaches were established whereby the government can help alleviate the medical problems of the needy. A program to educate and train students in California in the philosophy, administration, and development of PHP was developed in response to…

This study was conducted to supply information for vocational education planners concerning the employment needs of the health services industry in Colorado. It should also provide some indication of the demand for trained workers in the occupations surveyed by coordinating expected company expansion and replacement needs with the number to be…

This article discusses health problems in developing nations. (MK)

The paper describes the teaching models used by the College of Allied Health Professions of the University of Kentucky in the design and implementation of a course in the health care delivery process. (Author)

The Student Health Projects (SHPs) were conceived more than 3 years ago by students in the health sciences as a primary step in their efforts to enhance the quality of their educational experience. The Chicago Student Health Project was devised, organized, and directed by members of the Student Health Organization. The format of this report is as…

Solving the health manpower shortage with health occupations education. (Editor)

The restructuring of the National Health Service (NHS) on April 1, 1974 provided the occasion for review of its entire education and training strategy. Seven principles are offered as the basis of a policy for progress during the next few years. (MW)

The document reports on the successful efforts of the San Francisco Home Health Service, which brings much needed homemaker/home health aide services to hundreds of elderly people in the San Francisco Chinatown area. Providing historical and cultural background information about the area, its residents, and its particular health problems, the…

The document's research concerns are directed to the study of various dimensions of health care delivery systems and the dynamics of health manpower supply and requirements. It attempts to explore and determine the effectiveness of the economic system as a surrogate in health planning for the health care delivery system, and to estimate the…

The Demonstration Training Program (DTP) undertaken by the Detroit Medical Foundation (DMF) was designed for Primary Care Unit staffs (PCUs) or Physician Corporations (PCs), area health center providers under contract to the Michigan Health Maintenance Organization Plans, Inc. (MHMOP). The major goals of the program were to design an appropriate…

The crisis in health care is one of the lack of delivery of health services to the consumer. This is, in part, secondary to the dearth and maldistribution of primary care physicians and the ineffective utilization of existing health manpower to deliver primary care. Physician's assistants and the expanded role of nurses in patient care as nurse…

Some informational materials used in the project reported in "Health Manpower Research. Volume 1" (VT 005 426) are presented. A 97-page bibliography covers manpower, health occupations, planning and legislation, migration of health personnel, staffing and utilization, health economics, and research into health manpower. Appendixes include: (1) a…