Planning for what? Challenging the assumptions of health human resources planning.

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Published in Health Policy on May 13, 2009

Authors

Gail Tomblin Murphy1, George Kephart, Lynn Lethbridge, Linda O'Brien-Pallas, Stephen Birch

Author Affiliations

1: School of Nursing, Dalhousie University, Canada.

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