(110 ILCS 230/1)

(from Ch. 144, par. 178)

Sec. 1.

This Act may be cited as the

Manpower Planning and Analysis Act.

(Source: P.A. 86‑1475.)

(110 ILCS 230/2)

(from Ch. 144, par. 179)

Sec. 2.

The Board of Higher Education is authorized to distribute funds for the pursuit of certain operational research projects.

(a) A project to develop analytical tools to assist the Board of Higher Education in its planning tasks, and in particular research that will provide:

(1) The Board with an approved basis for making recommendations on the allocating of funds for health education.

(2) Methods for planning operational programs to achieve the health manpower objectives of the Board.

(3) The means for assessing the status of health manpower on a continuing basis.

This project would involve the assessment of the relationship of current health education and the educational resources with the output of trained manpower and an analysis of appropriate techniques for estimating future manpower requirements and the design of an information system in support of the above two items.

This project is visualized as a 1‑year effort, with work in the three mentioned areas being carried out by the Board of Higher Education and appropriate institutions and agencies.

(Source: P. A. 76‑2558.)

(110 ILCS 230/3)

(from Ch. 144, par. 180)

Sec. 3.

The Board of Higher Education is authorized to distribute funds for the pursuit of various health care research projects.

(a) Such projects would be concerned with the interrelationship between the provision of health care and education and health care manpower, particularly in the areas of developing new kinds of health professionals for innovative types of health care systems. In addition, these projects would also be concerned with the development of career ladders allowing for upward mobility in the health fields. This research would be carried out through the health care institutions, the health education institutions, and the various community groups involved in such programs to develop data and define programs based on these data that would permit the entry of sufficient numbers of new and traditional types of health care personnel into the health care system.

(b) The Board of Higher Education would be empowered to contract with appropriate agencies to perform these research projects.

(Source: P.A. 76‑2558.)