Constituent Factors of HRD in Health Care

Abstract

Health care has emerged as one of the clearest and most visible expressions of society's attitude to the value of life. The WHO.'s target of ‘Health for All’ has raised expectations of easier access to and affordability of efficient medical treatment, together with com-passionate care. HRD has come to be regarded as a vital variable in the field of health care given the fact that it has 90 per cent of human interface and only 10 per cent of equipment-supported interface. The rationale of the study stemmed from the feeling that professional health care both in developed and developing countries is not totally on a harmonious wavelength with important aspects of HRD. The objective of the study was to identify the factors of HRD in health care and compare them across India and the USA. In order to make health care systems more cohesive and integrated, weaker factors, whether primary or secondary, deserve attention for better synthesis with the stronger ones. The knowledge generated has important implications for enhancing efficiency, effectiveness, quality, learning orientation, and feedback and benefits of improved health care both in developed as well as developing countries.

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