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Resource centre

Documents and reports on human resources for health

:: Education and training
:: Gender and health workforce
:: Human resources for health and service delivery/priority programme
:: Management
:: Migration and retention
:: Nursing and midwifery
:: Planning
:: Policy
:: Regulation and accreditation

World health report 2006 documents

:: The world health report 2006 - working together for health
WHO's leading document on the global health workforce.
:: Background and follow-up papers
:: Policy briefs (in five languages)

Journals

:: Human Resouces for Health Journal
An open access, peer-reviewed, online journal covering all aspects of planning, producing and managing the health workforce.
:: Human Resources Development Journal
An independent journal on research in health manpower development (published 1997-2001).

Other resources

:: Gender Analysis of Human Resources for Health - Review paper prepared for the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health [pdf 308kb]
:: Canadian Institute for Health Information
:: Eldis dossier on human resources for health
:: EQUINET
:: The Health workforce in Africa - challenges and prospects [pdf 982kb]
:: HRH Global Resource Center - The Capacity Project
:: HRH for Africa - An electronic resource centre for human resources in Africa
:: The Joint Learning Initiative (JLI) Strategy report: human resources for health - overcoming the crisis [pdf 7.19Mb]
:: Observatory eye - A quarterly bulletin of the National Human Resources for Health Observatory, Sudan [pdf 1.74Mb]
:: The World Bank - Human resources

WHO information sources

:: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
:: WHO publications web site
:: Online book shop

NEW RELEASES

Joint WHO/AAAH conference on Getting committed health workers to underserved areas

Policy Brief - International migration of health workers

Evaluation du programme d'appui à la médicalisation des aires de santé rurales au Mali

Report on the WHO/PEPFAR planning meeting on scaling up nursing and medical education

Handbook on monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health


ONLINE JOURNAL

Human Resources for Health


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