Health systems are facing an increasing number of challenges, while governments remain dedicated to searching for cost-effective options to enhance the capacity of national health systems to perform well. Within the context of limited financial resources, rising health care costs, increasing health deman...
This document was prepared in the context of a redefinition of the organization and policies of the Human Resources Development Program of the Pan American Health Organization. Its purpose is to determine future lines of action in the area of development of human resources for nursing, based on an analys...
Care and caring have been and continue to be the cornerstone of nursing delivery of services. The scientific advances of the past decade are changing the understanding of the human brain, mental illness, and biochemical treatments of mental disorders. Psychiatric nurses continuously must integrate the ne...
In connection with the 10th meeting of the Technical Commission for Human Resources Development in Central America and the Dominican Republic, a three-day workshop was held to help identify the current situation in each country regarding the human resource planning process and capacity-building to measur...
This guide is addressed to readers new to interprofessional education (IPE) who want to learn more as they prepare to become one of its tutors, practice teachers, facilitators, examiners, assessors, reviewers or researchers. It responds to questions that we are frequently asked by visitors to the UK emba...
Este guia destina-se aos leitores interessados na Educação Interprofissional (EIP) e que desejam aprender mais à medida que se preparam para operacionalizá-la, atuando como tutores, docentes, facilitadores, assessores, revisores ou pesquisadores. O guia responde a questões frequentemente recebidas p...
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 human resources for health (HRH) planning is to equip governments with the information and tools they require to determine the health workforce needed to meet the needs of the population, both now and in the future. With HRH representing the largest portion of the health care budget in m...
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...
INTRODUCTION: During the past half century, the focus of development of human resources for health (HRH) has evolved from increasing the numbers of conventional health personnel, through efforts to improve the education of all health workers, to current attempts to increase their effectiveness and the qu...
