The challenges
Human resources for health policies and development face challenges related to:
- scaling up training for newly emerging and priority diseases;
- improving retention of qualified health workers in countries which suffer losses due to emigration;
- improving the capacity of educational institutions to enable them to produce more health workers in a quality manner;
- improving human resources for health governance capacity, in order to plan, regulate and manage the workforce more effectively at national level;
- monitoring human resources for health trends;
- supporting Member States in crisis in re-shaping their human resources for health agenda.
- steering human resources for health agenda and aligning it with other national health system development policies;
- engaging all relevant sectors – e.g. finance, education, labour and public services – as well as civil society and the private sector;
- integrating human resources for health plans to address specific disease or priority health programmes with the overall human resources for health plans of health ministries;
- resources mobilization for human resources for health and strategic investments;
- harmonizing and building synergies in human resources for health across programmes and global health initiatives.
- WHO commitment to the education and training of more health workers
- World Health Day 2006
- Masters Degree programme with a focus on health workforce development
- Health workforce migration and retention programme at WHO
- Health Worker Migration Global Policy Advisory Council Meeting
- WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Resolution on the international code of practice
- European Regional Consultation on the Draft WHO Code of Practice