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Interest in HR planning for the health care sector in cheap tiffany 1837 has paralleled the development of modem socialized medicine. Government's increasing involvement in organizing health care services has been associated with escalating pressures to rationally balance the competing interests involved. Responsibly using public resources and tax revenue, meeting the broad health care needs of the public, and respecting the autonomy of self-governing professions are examples of the various priorities relevant to this area. Against this background, and for physicians and medical care specifically, there are a host of related questions: What resources are needed to provide medical services? How many physicians do we need? What is their role in health care?Although government may have a primary public duty to wrestle with these issues, there are other constituencies in the policy-setting process who also have an interest in medical-PHR planning. These include many professional groups and associations, advocacy groups, and the lay public, all of whom are interested in obtaining useful guidance around these questions. This Position Paper aims to contribute to this debate from the perspective of the CPA.The CPA has recognized for some time that, cheap tiffany key rings previous efforts, many questions regarding PHR planning remained unanswered, impeding the development of national recommendations. In an attempt to move forward, in 2002 the CPA Board of Directors instructed the 10-member Council of Provinces to develop a background paper on PHR planning. The mandate included the following objectives:1 . To develop a framework for provincial and national PHR, consistent with the mental health needs of the population.2. To list and describe the variables relevant to PHR planning.3. To ensure that the discussion incorporates the evolving and significant multiple roles of psychiatrists.

The Background Paper1 that emerged from this initiative was useful in promoting internal discussions at CPA; however, for various reasons, it was never released for external use. Nevertheless, the demand for a CPA-generated view of psychiatric resources has-if anything-increased, in concert with the expanding public awareness of mental health issues, the successes of psychiatric research, and more realistic acknowledgement from government regarding the extent of mental health problems. This Position Paper (henceforth referred to as the Paper) aims to build on the ground gained by cheap return to tiffany predecessor. The Paper is intended to provide background information for internal CPA use, represent current CPA thinking to external stakeholders, and set the stage for continuing work in this area.It needs to be stressed at the outset that, as the Paper will make clear, there can be no objective, universal answer to the question, How many psychiatrists do we need? Planning for health services such as psychiatry involves similar considerations as for other public works. Thus asking, How many psychiatrists do we need? is in some ways akin to asking, How many roads do we need? The answer depends on what the roads are for, how the community is organized, what kinds of activity occurs in the community, and so on. It is very difficult to define specific road needs for a given population, a priori, but much easier to state, Current and projected traffic patterns dictate a need for this kind of road, here, now.This Paper aims to review the issues and factors relevant to PHR planning as it occurs at various times and places in Canada. Before focusing on factors impinging on psychiatric resource allocation issues-and for the benefit of external readers-the Paper outlines the tiffany jewelry for sale of the resource itself (that is, psychiatrists). It then summarizes current views on HR issues from a general medical as well as more specifically psychiatric perspective. Finally, it draws together some practical recommendations in dealing with the PHR question on an ongoing basis.

The Definition of a PsychiatristPsychiatry is that branch of medicine "concerned with the biopsychosocial study of the etiology, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders alone or as they coexist with other medical or surgical disorders across the life span." ,p ' Psychiatrists, then, have trained as medical doctors and then have gone on to specialize in psychiatry.