Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive
Workforce Planning Methodology
1. Mertz, Joshua and Grumbach's study of the oral health
workforce involved an extensive literature and legislative
review, as well as interviews with 20 key

freeholders
policyholders
shareholders
stakeholders
2. The literature review exposed the main theoretical
concepts behind workforce planning and was used to
assess current DHPSA policy in the of the policy's
legislative history.

content
context
intent
subtext
3. The study provides a synthesis of the alternative
personnel planning methodologies (supply-based,
demand-based and needs-based), and examines data
availability to these methods.

invent
invest
supplant
support
4. The practical application of these methods is found
primarily in the DHPSA and National Health Service Corps
(NHSC) programs, the primary governmental efforts to

retort
8. While a variety of methodologies for measuring
shortages exist, there are little data currently available
upon which to base a new method.

altered
alternate
alternating
alternative
9. Dental health personnel planning is a process to
determine appropriate numbers, types and distribution of
providers needed to achieve certain health goals and is
rooted with the social to use limited resources
appropriately.

imperative
implication
importance
impression
10. This study suggests the need for a revision of oral
health care workforce monitoring and planning methods
and a of assessment efforts and programmatic
responses.

realignment
reassignment
reconfinement
reconsignment