It-is quite true that a question on how to attain the primary objective of the proper placement of the existing" health service personnel within an organized health network will be one of main questions to be considered as an integral part of the general health service program under the assumption that the highest degree of effectiveness and efficiency of the program can be made at the time when the health service personnel are evenly and properly placed under the full consideration of their job descriptions, workloads, and individual capacity and characteristics. We also believe that the proper placement of health service personnel within the limited availability of the current manpower, especially, that of family planning workers will certainly dedicate not only to the balanced development and efficiency of the National Family Planning Program, but also to the establishment of an evaluative guideline to ask better management and utilization of family planning workers. Therefore, the followings are the summarized contents of findings from a study on a scheme for better placement of family planning workers to be applied in future National Family Planning Program.
1) Even if we admit not the general plan and scheme of the health service personnel placement and that of family planning workers would be, in some extent, different from one to another´, caused by the changing program contents and goals, we have strong conviction that we could attain the primary goal of the program by the systematic and efficient operation of the program through innovative revitalization of the program network as Well as the proper placement of the Family Planning workers based on even assignment of their workloads.
2) We think that the formula expected to be applied in a scheme for the health service personnel placement especially in family planning workers placement permits many different variables. The primary basis is to be consisted of the dependent variables which are keenly associated with the workers´ activities such as the sized of the target group for contraception, the rate/frequency of contacting potential acceptors per worker, and the total number of contraceptive achievements per worker. In the mean time the accumulated sterilization achievements enter the consideration of different surroundings and conditions by area, the rate of. self-supporting contraception and its level of development will be the independent variables. Eventually, we think we can induce the following formula through good combinations of different variables established in the above:
Adjutants between the extremely needed number of workers and optimum number of workers by area: It is to be applied by area after figuring out an adjusted number on the base of the established formula;
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