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Country and regional specific resources: WHO Region of the Americas

• Health Worker Shortages and Global Justice
  Milbank Memorial Fund Report
  1 December 2011
• Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education - Webinars
  Distance Education Grand Rounds Series
  1 September 2011
• Scaling-up the Community-Based Health Workforce for Emergencies
  Joint Statement by the Global Health Workforce Alliance, WHO, IFRC, UNICEF, UNHCR
  1 June 2011
• Is Haiti’s health system any better? A report calling for a more coordinated, collaborative approach to disaster response.
  10 January 2011
• Global Experience of Community Health Workers for Delivery of Health Related Millennium Development Goals: A Systematic Review, Country Case Studies, and Recommendations for Integration into National Health Systems
  Alliance document
  14 October 2010
• Doctors and Nurses
  BBC World News Documentary film
  19 August 2010
• Responding in Crisis-The role of national and international health workers-Lessons from Haiti
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• Inequalities in the Technical Brazilian Health Workforce
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Understanding health workforce wastage in Mexico
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Health Worker Migration Policy Advisory Council meeting June 2009
  Webcast
  1 January 2009
• Working in health. Financing and managing the public sector health workforce
  The World Bank, book
  1 January 2009
• Primary Health Care for Remote Village Communities in Honduras: A Model for Training and Support of Community Health Workers
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Supporting Health Worker Performance with Effective Supervision
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Virtual campus of public health
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• Scaling Up, Saving Lives
  Report
  1 January 2008
• The Health Workforce: Scaling up through primary health care
  Presentation
  1 January 2008
• The US physician workforce: where do we stand?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• International mobility of health professionals and health workforce management in Canada: myths and realities
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• Nurse workforce challenges in the United States: implications for policy
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• "Sitting in different chairs:" roles of the community health workers in the Poder es Salud/Power for Health project.
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Examining the relationship between patient orientation and job satisfaction in health care: evidence from the nursing profession.
  Article
  1 January 2007
• Informal consultation on scaling up health workforce production
  Report
  1 January 2006