Study on Job-analysis-based Allocation of Public Health Manpower for Community Health Service Team

Objective To predict the needed numbers of community public health personnel,investigate the existing problems of personnel allocation in community health service institutions,and put forward suggestions for improvement.Methods All of the eight public health workers of all the 8 community health service teams in a community health service center in Beijing were recruited as the subjects.The field observation,self recording,and interview analysis of the methods of job analysis were used,in combination with statistical analysis,to determine the quantifiable work items,and workload,work time and work saturation in one year,and further to calculate one year′s working time.Then the improved formula of health manpower demand was applied to predict the public health personnel needed.Results The community health service center should be equipped with 17 public health workers,and there are 8 now.The personnel demand index is 0.47.Conclusion The numbers of community public health personnel in the community health service center are not enough,which can not meet the working need.It is necessary to fill in the gaps in public health personnel,at the same time,conduct training on relevant professional abilities,and enhance the level of service occupation,and thus,to a certain extent,to relieve the stress resulted from shortage of personnel quantity.