ABSTRACT
The quantitative and descriptive study sought to analyze the trajectory of the fourteen undergraduate studies in healthcare, to note the idleness of vacancies and to identify the presence and the dimension of the distance education. Based on the Higher Education Census, the clases of 1995, 2004 and 2015, the vacancies and the graduates from 1995 to 2015, the relations vacancies x admissions and admissions x gradautes made up the variables and the analysis indicators. A large expansion, geographic iniquity and privatization of graduation, significant idleness of vacancies and inadequate availability of distance education have been observed. It is concluded that the planning of healthcare human resources in accordance with the directives and principles of the Unified Health System (SUS) is a priority agenda.
KEYWORDS
Health education; Health manpower; Education; distance