An Approach to Planning for Physician Requirements in Developing Countries Using Dynamic Programming

Fidelis M. Ikem and Arnold M. Reisman
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Fidelis M. Ikem: Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia
Arnold M. Reisman: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Operations Research, 1990, vol. 38, issue 4, 607-618

Abstract: Physician manpower requirements of most developing countries can often be met by developing local training facilities, sending indigenes to train abroad, and/or by recruiting expatriate physicians. Foreign training and having expatriates often involve expenditures of scarce foreign exchange in competition with other development projects. This paper develops a manpower planning model which coordinates physician manpower requirements of a developing country with its capacity to train such physicians along with national objectives to contain costs. The paper presents computational results from a dynamic programming model using the best data available from Nigeria.

Keywords: dynamic programming: capacity planning for training of physicians; government; services: manpower planning in developing countries; planning; government: physician planning requirements in developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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