Work in progress: Not for citation without authors’ permission Health human resources planning and the production of health: Development of an extended analytical framework for needs-based health human resources planning. Stephen Birch, D. Phil 1 Gail Tomblin-Murphy, Ph. D. 2 Linda O’Brien-Pallas, Ph. D. 3 George Kephart, Ph.D. 2 Rob Alder, Ph.D. 4 1. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario 2. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 3. University of Toronto 4. Med-Emerg International Inc., Toronto May 2005