Exploring Foundational Models in Healthcare Human Resource Planning: A Conceptual Analysis

Healthcare delivery is very important factor to the well-being of society. It ensures people get timely, effective, and fair medical care, improving lives, preventing disease, and reducing health inequalities. There is a projected shortfall in the health workforce in the next five years. According to WHO the low- and lower-middle-income countries will be affected the most. If this shortage is not addressed, it will result in significant consequences, such as limited access to healthcare for billions of people and disruptions in the care and treatment of chronic diseases. To deal with what can be considered a potential workforce crisis, effective manpower planning, a key aspect of hospital manpower management, is inevitable . Effective planning helps to addressed unique challenges such as managing a diverse staff, ensuring clear communication, optimizing resources, and confronting rising operational costs, workforce shortages, and employee burnout. This paper reviews key models of healthcare manpower planning by examining previous related articles and reports from reputable sources such as WHO, PubMed, the National Library of Medicine, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar. The findings reveal that there is no specific