Every country needs a competent, motivated, well-distributed and supported health workforce. Health workers are the cornerstone of the strong, resilient health systems needed to achieve universal health coverage. These are the people who keep the world safe, improve health, and protect the vulnerable. Th...
Nursing/organization & administration,
Education, Public Health Professional,
Midwifery/organization & administration,
Students, Nursing,
Curriculum,
Staff Development,
Family Health/history,
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Nursing/trends
At a time when the world is facing a shortage of health workers, policymakers are looking for innovative strategies that can help them develop policy and programmes to bolster the global health workforce. The Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice highlights the cu...
Numa época em que o mundo enfrenta a falta de profissionais de saúde, os formuladores de políticas estão buscando estratégias inovadoras que possam ajuda-los a desenvolver políticas e programas para motivar a força de trabalho de saúde mundial. O Marco para Ação em Educação Interprofissional ...
The Code aims to establish and promote voluntary principles and practices for the ethical international recruitment of health personnel and to facilitate the strengthening of health systems. It was designed by Member States to serve as a continuous and dynamic framework for global dialogue and cooperatio...
Increased attention to the strengthening of health systems would not be sustainable in the absence of a sound monitoring strategy that enables decision-makers to accurately track health progress and performance, evaluate impact, and ensure accountability at country and global levels. This handbook descri...
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...
