New publication:
Handbook on monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health, with special applications in low- and middle-income countries
This Handbook offers health managers, researchers and policy makers a comprehensive and standard reference for monitoring and evaluating human resources for health. It brings together an analytical framework with strategy options for improving the health workforce information and evidence base, as well as country experiences to highlight approaches that have worked. A joint publication of the World Health Organization, World Bank and United States Agency for International Development, it is available in English, French and Spanish. (A Portuguese version is also forthcoming.)
Chapter 6 is on Measuring expenditure on the health workforce: concepts, data sources and methods.
The handbook can be purchased from WHO Press.