Filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg) are highly contagious pathogens, which
cause severe and often fatal illness in humans. Health workers are at increased
risk of infection with these viruses because of their close and prolonged contact with severely ill patients with a high viral load. The risk of transmiss...
Meningococcal meningitis is a bacterial form of meningitis, a serious infection of the meninges (brain membrane). It can cause severe brain damage and is fatal in 50% of cases if untreated. It provides a concise overview of the World Health Organization (WHO) strategy to detect and respond to meningitis ...
Planned and regulated task shifting and task sharing can have a range of benefits. It can ensure a rational optimization of the available health workforce, address health system shortages of specialized health-care professionals, improve equity in access to health care and increase the acceptability of h...
The World Health Report 2006 ‘Working Together for Health’ pointed to an estimated 57 countries globally that have a critical
shortage equivalent to a global deficit of 2.4 million doctors, nurses and midwives which by implication suggests millions of
people worldwide who do not receive the essential...
The World Health Organization’s recommendations on optimizing the roles of health workers aim to help address critical health workforce shortages that slow down progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals. A more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among cadres of h...
The World Health Organization’s recommendations on optimizing the roles of health workers aim to help address critical health workforce shortages that slow down progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals. A more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among cadres of h...
Half the world’s people currently live in rural and remote areas. The problem is that most health workers live and work in cities. This imbalance is common to almost all countries and poses a major challenge to the nationwide provision of health services. This report builds on work that has already bee...
