A technical meeting on strengthening health workforce information systems was held on 10–12 March 2010 in Montreux, Switzerland. The meeting was jointly convened by the World Health Organization’s Department of Human Resources for Health, the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the Health Metrics Ne...
The objective of this paper is to take stock of the available methods and tools for health workforce planning and projections, and to describe the processes and resources needed to undertake such an exercise. Including this introduction, the paper is divided into four sections. In the next section, an ov...
Los planificadores de políticas de todos los países, independientemente de cuál sea el nivel de desarrollo económico nacional, buscan alcanzar la equidad sanitaria y satisfacer las necesidades de salud de sus poblaciones, en especial de los grupos más vulnerables y desfavorecidos. La escasez de pers...
Hoy día es evidente que, en muchos países de ingresos bajos y medianos, alcanzar las metas más importantes de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio, y en concreto las relativas a la salud, exige aumentar considerablemente el número de trabajadores sanitarios.
Se calcula que faltan en el mundo unos ...
This conference on Human Resources for Health (HRH), which was organized by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) and supported by the French cooperation system (French Agency for Development, AFD, and the French Foreign Ministry MAE), brought together representatives of 18 French- and Spanish-spea...
En su resolución WHA63.16 (2010), la 63.ª Asamblea Mundial de la Salud adoptó el Código de prácticas mundial de la OMS sobre contratación internacional de personal de salud, que constituye un marco de referencia multilateral para responder a la escasez mundial de personal de salud y afrontar las di...
En virtud de la resolución WHA49.12, la 49ª Asamblea Mundial de la Salud hizo suya la estrategia mundial de la OMS de salud ocupacional para todos e instó a los Estados Miembros a que elaboraran programas nacionales de salud ocupacional para todos los trabajadores y, en particular, para los de los sec...
El Informe sobre la salud en el mundo 2006 - Colaboremos por la salud presenta una evaluación realizada por expertos acerca de la crisis de personal sanitario que atraviesa el mundo, así como varias propuestas ambiciosas para abordar ese problema a lo largo de los próximos diez años, empezando a actu...
Health Workforce/organization & administration,
Health Workforce/trends,
Education, Medical/trends,
National Health Programs/organization & administration,
World Health Organization,
Global Health/22060,
Global Health/trends,
Employment/trends,
Employment/22060,
Health Personnel/education
INTRODUCTION: In its report entitled “Working for Health and Growth: Investing in the health workforce”, the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth (“Commission”) has proposed ten recommendations and five immediate actions to transform the health workforce for the achievem...
The critical importance of strengthening the health workforce as a strategy to improve the performance of health services system has been widely recognized in recent years. The pressing need for better data and information to inform policy development led to the creation of observatories to collect and a...