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7. An initial effort has been made during the conference<br />

to identify gaps in the published literature. As shown in the<br />

table below there are a number of areas in both the Spanish and<br />

English literature where participants felt deficiencies exist.<br />

These deficiencies should be further spelled out by representa-<br />

tives from Latin countries. <strong>PAHO</strong> should then commission papers<br />

or initiate studies which would reduce these deficiencies.<br />

(<strong>PAHO</strong>,OR/SA,Agencies.)<br />

Area<br />

Systems Anal.<br />

Informatics<br />

Decision Anal.<br />

Oper. Research<br />

General<br />

D: Deficient<br />

S: Satisfactory<br />

E: Excellent<br />

Status of Literature<br />

Type of Course<br />

Certificate<br />

Short Course Program<br />

Span. Eng. Span. Eng.<br />

D D S D<br />

D D D D<br />

D E D E<br />

D E D E<br />

D D D D<br />

Master's<br />

Program<br />

Span. Eng.<br />

D D<br />

D D<br />

D E<br />

E E<br />

D D<br />

8. P-r.icipants and educational institutions should consider<br />

collaborating in the development of applicable software for<br />

selected microcomputers that could'be used both in an educational<br />

environment as well as for real problem solving. This would<br />

require that participants work on compatible machines, using<br />

common languages. The recent advances in microprocessor tech-<br />

nology will enable users to obtain computers capable of solving<br />

complex problems at relatively low cost. The cost of software

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