Objectives: To describe the status of human resources in Hoa Binh in 2010 and forecast demand for human resources period 2012-2015. Methods: A cross-sectional study. Collect information of the health personnel in 2010. Results: in 2010 Hoa Binh has total public health staff is 3,051 people (at 88.1 percent of the staff involved in the health of the province)
number of private medical personnel licensed practice was 412 people (11.9 percent). Lack of health staff in Hoa Binh: 43.7 staff/10,000 population (public health was 38.5). The rate of physician/10,000 population was 6.7
(public provider was 6.4). Bachelor of pharmacist/l0,000 population was 0.7 (public health was 0.4). According to the population growth forecast period 2012-2015 to supplement 73-95 physicians and 68-72 bachelor of pharmacist. Conclusions: Management policies are needed to implement for attracting physicians and pharmacists with university degrees and higher. Develop plans for training and retraining to meet demand by 2015.