National human resource development policies: issues for health education administrators.

The pathway to achievement of the goal "Health for All by The Year 2000" is lined with good intentions, but one that in the remaining fifteen years of this century may not lead very far. Although development of human resources and support of local autonomy are promoted as the keys to success, in truth much greater attention must be devoted to infrastructures, administration, policies, and data base planning for education and health services. For health education administrators the decisions may be at odds with current economic and social change theory and perhaps at odds with their own values.