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As a means of addressing these concerns, the workshop
p4rticipants formulated a series of recommendations. These
recommendations are oriented towards the development of both
continuing education as well as more formal education programs
for health administrators in which the techniques of systems
analysis and operations research are presented. In addition,
since it is also necessary to train practitioners of those
metbodologies who will work in the health field, these types
of programs have also been addressed. A fundamental belief
of the participants is that these techniques, to be successfully
applied in solving health problems, require an interdisciplinary
team approach. They cannot be solved by individuals, neither
administrators nor analysts, working independently. Conse-
quently, the education of both administrators and practitioners
must be addressed. Further, to be most effective, these educa-
tion programs should overlap to as great as an extent as possible.
Thus, as students, there is an opportunity for both future
administrators and technicians to take courses together, work
on group projects together, and develop the appreciation of each
other's .iscipline and capabilities that will facilitate their
working together in the future.
The next section of this report contains the recommendations
of the workshop. It is followed by a section giving more speci-
fic details of the three levels of courses (short course, one
year certification program, two year masters) that have been
proposed.