Health workforce

Human resources for health (HRH) tools and guidelines

Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN)
The Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method is a human resource management tool. It provides health managers a systematic way to make staffing decisions in order to manage their valuable human resources well.

WPRO Workforce Projection Tool (WWPT) [pdf 862 kb]
Developed by WHO Regional Office for Western Pacific (WPRO), this software application facilitates the production of comparative, cadre-specific and summary reports for health workforce projections and cost parameters. The results obtained by using the WWPT tool may serve as guideposts for countries to base their HRH plans and strategies.

Health human resources modelling: challenging the past, creating the future [pdf 274kb]
Three separate but related projects were undertaken to link population health needs to health human resource planning, to illustrate the value and challenges in using health human resource data to inform policy decisions on nursing productivity and to generate evidence based retention policies to guide nursing workforce sustainability.

Health human resources planning and the production of health: Development of an analytical framework for needs-based health human resources planning
In this paper an analytical framework is developed based on the production of health care services and the multiple determinants of health human resource requirements. In this framework attention is focused on estimating the ‘flow’ of services required to meet the needs of the population that is then translated into the required ‘stock’ of providers to deliver this ‘flow’ of services.
An approach to estimating human resource requirements to achieve the Millennium Development Goals [pdf 158kb]
This paper proposes a methodological approach to estimating the requirements of human resources to achieve the goals set forth by the Millennium Declaration. The method builds on the service-target approach and functional job analysis.

Tools for planning and developing human resources for HIV/AIDS and other health services
pdf, 2.47Mb
Forecasting human resources needs to adequately train and supply a sufficiently large workforce is a challenging task. This manual presents, among others: an analytical framework and a way to update health workforce policy, rapid assessment of HR management needs, the impact of HIV/AIDS on human resources, a model for estimating workforce needs for antiretroviral therapy and other priority health services. A spreadsheet application helps to estimate the necessary health workforce.
Excel spreadsheet to calculate human resources needed to provide care to the targeted number of ARV patients
xls, 798kb

Selecting and applying methods for estimating the size and mix of nursing teams
pdf, 315kb
The aim of this report is to help nurses make better decisions about cost-effective numbers and mixes of nurses. It aims to help them make sense of the complex and uncertain world of nursing workforce planning. Commonly used nursing workforce planning methods are reviewed and classified.
Summary
pdf, 613kb

Scaling up HIV/AIDS care: service delivery and human resources perspectives
pdf, 888kb
Results of a study of human resources and antiretroviral therapy (ART) at 41 sites in 11 countries, presented in three sections: an overview of service delivery models for ART, a more in-depth account of the systems studied and a report of an international workshop on HRH and ART delivery.
Human resources for health: models for projecting workforce supply and requirements
pdf, 505kb
Field-tested supply and requirements projection models to facilitate long-range planning of the health workforce.
WPRO/RTC health workforce planning workbook
pdf, 245kb
Designed to enable users to produce a health workforce plan.

Checklist for review of the human resource development component of national plans to control tuberculosis.
Competent health care providers and managers are critical to the successful implementation of the Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) strategy to reach and sustain the targets for global tuberculosis (TB) control. The development and maintenance of a competent workforce for TB control is therefore a key component of the activities of national TB control programs. Structured in the form of questions to be answered and issues to be considered during the review process, the checklist has been developed as a tool to assist in a systematic review of the human resource development component of national TB programs.

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