Human resources for health
This is a vastly under-researched area that requires clarity in research priorities (both globally and nationally), and in impact evaluations of the innovative policies recently implemented. A number of Alliance-funded research grants in the area have been recently completed, showing potentially high returns vis-a-vis influence on decision-making processes.
Potential angles the Alliance may take in further investigating HRH includes:
- evaluating strategies to promote the retention and motivation of health workers;
- international (and industrialized country) policies on health worker migration; and
- role of community health workers, with particular attention to the scope for substitution of other health professionals by community health workers.
For Alliance-supported work on the topic, see the peer-reviewed study by Ranson MK et al.
Alliance projects relating to human resources for health
- Benin, Burkina et Niger - Health Workers Salaries in low and middle income countries
- Bolivia, Chile and Peru - Health Workers Salaries in low and middle income countries
- China - Incentives to attract and retain qualified health workers to under-served areas within low and middle income countries
- India - Incentives to attract and retain qualified health workers to under-served areas within low- and middle-income countries
- Lebanon - Incentives to attract and retain qualified health workers to under-served areas within low and middle income countries
- Peru - Incentives to attract and retain qualified health workers to under-served areas within low- and middle-income countries
- Uganda - Centres for systematic reviews of health policy and systems research in low-and middle-income countries