maternal and Chile health centres in Hong Kong offer, for children aged below six and women of childbearing age,a comprehensive range of health services regularly performed by nurses fo different ranks. While each rank has its specific duties, nurses of a higher rank can step down to the work of a more junior rank when necessary. However, cross-regional deployments of nurses occur less frequently. We develop goal programming models of "optimal" MCH nurses allocation. The presentce and absence of nurses'"cross-over" fo work functions are explicitly considered. The results show that more equitable manpower leveling can be achieved, with flexibility on cross-regional deployment of nurses to be another possible way fo operational improvement when the entire MCH service is taken as a whole.
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