Gender and health workforce statistics

Fact sheet

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World Health Organization

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Number of pages: 2
Publication date: 2008
Languages: English, Français, Español, Português

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This fact sheet, part of a series on health workforce statistics, provides recommendations on gender analysis of the health workforce.

A strategy for gender analysis of the health workforce should include four key components:

  • Building capacity at the international, national and sub-national levels for gender analysis in workforce policy and planning;
  • Reflection of gender in national health workforce development budgets;
  • Promoting the use of sex-disaggregated data in monitoring and evaluation activities at all levels; and
  • Establishing accountability.