Intended for researchers in the health manpower field, this booklet contains abstracts of books and journal articles on health manpower published over the past eighteen months and a report of a study of the Center for Medical Manpower Studies. The booklet begins with two pages that list ten health manpower indicators involving costs, patient admissions, and numbers of health personnel. The next section, "The Market for Middle Echelon Health Care Administrators" (MEHCAs), describes a study conducted to assess the potential employment opportunities of MEHCAs in hospitals, long-term facilities, and ambulatory facilities in the Boston-Cambridge area. It includes projections of demand for MEHCAs and the impact of national health insurance on these projections. The abstracts section includes two-page abstracts of five books ("The Union Epidemic,""Health Manpower Information for Policy Guidance,""The Manpower Problem in Mental Hospitals,""A Spy in the House of Medicine," and "Physician Productivity and the Demand for Health Manpower") and one- to two-page abstracts of fourteen articles. Some representative titles are "An Overview of Primary Health Care,""Productivity of Women Physicians," and "The Role of New Health Practitioners in a Prepaid Group Practice." A list of the seventy-seven journals searched for the abstracts is included. (EM)