Longer-term thinking may be necessary here to match the process to the demand, and certainly better forecasting of demand is needed.
Among the principal challenges to procurement that UNICEF faces is inaccurate forecasting of vaccine needs, especially in low-income countries where planning is rudimentary and health delivery systems are under significant stress.
Other country-specific forecasts of the need for nursing personnel generally take into account demand as well as supply factors based on historically established staffing levels, resources and estimates of demand for health services.
One of the principal methods of forecasting the financial needs of a business is the cash budget, which predicts the combined effects of planned operations on the firm's cash flow.
In the context of forecasting vaccine needs, the GPEI plan focuses on a detailed characterization of this heterogeneity in coverage in some areas, which represents a complementary approach.
The fault block model (FBM) is an alternative simulation tool, developed with the purpose of forecasting well needs and reservoir performance in strongly faulted gas and gas condensate reservoirs.
With financial firms forecast to need another 15,000 people in the next decade, the Edinburgh economy is in danger of overheating.
The importance of matching and forecasting the needs, demand and supply of HRH and the provision of training to build resilience and meet the health system needs of individual countries cannot be overemphasized [ 58].
Insights into these long-term trends regarding the GP workforce in the Netherlands can contribute to our understanding of preferred careers of male and female GPs, and can help to better forecast the balance of need and supply of GPs in the future for other countries too.
Planning human resources for health (HRH) requires modelling long-term interplay between the supply of specialists and forecasting the changing needs of the population and the emerging care pathways.
The state's plan calls for the forecast water needs of cities over the next 50 years to be met by 2010; for farmers' needs to be met by 2015; and for basic environmental standards to be met only after 2020.
