Improving manpower planning in health care

23rd Bled eConference eTrust: Implications for the Individual, Enterprises and Society - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 144-154

  Smits, Martin ^a   Slenter, Victor ^b   Geurts, Jac ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Capaciteitsorgaan   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Group decision making; Health care; Manpower planning; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; PLANNING; SYSTEM THEORY;

GROUP DECISION MAKING; MANPOWER PLANNING; NETHERLANDS; PLANNING MODELS; POLICY MAKERS; REGIONAL LEVELS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELLING;

DECISION MAKING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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