Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #122302

Amy Hagopian, MHA, PhD, University of Washington, Box 354982, 4311 11th Ave, NE, Seattle, WA 98195-4982, 206-616-4989, hagopian@u.washington.edu and Mark A. Micek, MD, MPH, International Health Program, Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Explain how health service demand models could be constructed for practical planning purposes;
• 2. Articulate how to project demand for patient care visits from a population, based on WHO and country-level standards of care;
• 3. Extrapolate from a demand model to project numbers of health workers needed to implement a scaled-up HIV/AIDS treatment program.

Keywords: Developing Countries, Workforce

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.