title: Designing primary health care teams for developing countries.
abstract: A time-honored industrial engineering technique, job evaluation, which was developed to set rates for manual labor, was used in the design of new teams for delivering primary health care in Latin America. The technique was used both in writing job descriptions for new allied health personnel and in designing the curriculums needed to train the personnel.
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel; D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D007843:Latin America; D008800:Mexico; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D010559:Personnel Management; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis