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Policy and planning

• Longitudinal study of rural health workforce in five counties in China: research design and baseline description
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:17 (4 May 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Aspirations for quality health care in Uganda: How do we get there?
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:13 (22 March 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Understanding the factors influencing health-worker employment decisions in South Africa
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:15 (23 April 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Motivation and incentives of rural maternal and neonatal health care providers: a comparison of qualitative findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania
  Article published in the BMC Health Services Research 2013, 13:149 (25 April 2013)
  1 April 2013
• An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
  Article published in the Implementation Science 2013, 8:48 (8 May 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Health workforce remuneration: comparing wage levels, ranking, and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:11 (28 February 2013)
  1 March 2013
• Projecting Thailand physician supplies between 2012 and 2030: application of cohort approaches
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:3
  1 February 2013
• Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit: Designing Evidence-Based Incentives for Health Workers
  Health worker retention toolkit
  1 January 2013
• Human resources for health: critical for effective universal health coverage
  Global Health Workforce Alliance
  1 January 2013
• Mobility of health professionals – case stories
  Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf) document
  1 November 2012
• Global Health Workforce Alliance Strategy 2013-2016 - Overview brochure
  Advancing the Health Workforce Agenda within Universal Health Coverage
  1 November 2012
• The Global Health Workforce Alliance Strategy 2013-2016
  Advancing the Health Workforce Agenda within Universal Health Coverage
  1 September 2012
• A narrative review on the effect of economic downturns on the nursing labour market: implications for policy and planning
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:23 (20 August 2012)
  1 August 2012
• Ten years of health workforce planning in the Netherlands: a tentative evaluation of GP planning as an example
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:21 (13 August 2012)
  1 August 2012
• So many, yet few: Human resources for health in India
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:19 (13 August 2012)
  1 August 2012
• A systematic review of the effectiveness of alternative cadres in community based rehabilitation
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:20 (13 August 2012)
  1 August 2012
• HEALTH 2020 Leadership for health and well-being in 21st century Europe
  HEALTH AND WELL-BEING – A COMMON PURPOSE, A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
  28 February 2012
• An analysis of GAVI, the Global Fund and World Bank support for human resources for health in developing countries
  Published by Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  13 February 2012
• PIAT: Human Resources for Health Policy Impact Assessment Tool (PIAT) - Guidance notes
  Tool's guidance note
  1 January 2012
• PIAT: Human Resources for Health Sub-National Policy Impact Assessment Tool
  Data collection focus and unit of analysis is sub-national level, aggregation at national level
  1 January 2012
• PIAT: Human Resources for Health National Policy Impact Assessment Tool
  Questionnaire for data collection and/or aggregation using available sources at national level
  1 January 2012
• Guiding Principles for National Health Workforce Strategies
  Guidelines
  1 January 2012
• Policies and Plans for Human Resources for Health: Guidelines for Countries in the WHO African Region
  Guidelines by the WHO Regional Office for Africa
  1 January 2012
• Policies and Plans for Human Resources for Health: Guidelines for Countries in the WHO African Region
  Guidelines by the WHO Regional Office for Africa
  1 January 2012
• Building Stronger Human Resources for Health through Licensure, Certification and Accreditation
  Capacity Project: knowledge sharing - Technical brief 3
  1 January 2012
• Guidelines: Incentives for Health Professionals
  Guidelines
  1 January 2012
• The human resource for health situation in Zambia: deficit and maldistribution
  Article published in the Human Resources for Health journal
  19 December 2011
• Governance and human resources for health
  Article published on the Human Resources for Health journal
  1 December 2011
• The global health workforce crisis: an unfinished agenda
  Report of the Health Workforce Session at the World Health Summit, Berlin 2011
  1 December 2011
• Evidence-informed Human Resources for Health Policies: the contribution of HRH Observatories
  Report of the Global meeting on Human Resources for Health Observatories
  30 November 2011
• FHI 360 Health System Rapid Diagnostic Tool (RDT)
  “How To Guide” to diagnose the performance of health system functions, 2011
  25 October 2011
• Health worker shortages in Zambia: An assessment of government responses
  Article published in the Journal of Public Health Policy
  18 August 2011
• Progress report on the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
  Reviewing Progress, Renewing Commitment.
  24 January 2011
• Presenting the upcoming State of the World’s Midwifery report
  Fact sheets
  10 January 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
• Development of regional HRH indicators and monitoring template
  Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health, Report
  29 June 2010
• Changing IMF policies to get more doctors, nurses and teachers hired in developing countries
  Action Aid, policy brief
  29 June 2010
• The Chattisgarh Experience with a Three-Year Course for Rural Health Care Practitioners
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Health workforce responses to global health initiatives funding: a comparison of Malawi and Zambia
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• The joint WHO ILO UNAIDS policy guidelines for improving health workers' access to HIV and TB prevention, treatment, care and support services
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• Human Resources for Health in Maternal, Neonatal and Reproductive Health at the Community level: A Synthesis of the Literature with a focus on the Asia pacific Region.
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Models and tools for health workforce planning and projections. Human Resources for Health Observer
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• Pakistan human resources for health assessment, 2009
  Article
  1 January 2010
• Priorities for research into human resources for health in low- and middle-income countries
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2010
• G8 and strengthening of health systems: follow-up to the Toyako summit
  Article
  1 January 2009
• Global Forum on Health Research emphasizes Open Access to scientific information. Newsletter VHL 086, 21 January 2009
  Article
  1 January 2009
• The Global Health Workforce Crisis and the 2009 G8 Summit (La Maddalena, Italy): Recommendations from the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative
  Advocacy document
  1 January 2009
• Knowledge strategy of the Global Health Workforce Alliance: 2009 - 2011
  Strategic document
  1 January 2009
• Improving access to Healthcare for All: nursing and midwifery contribution to primary health care renewal. Meeting recommendations
  Report
  1 January 2009
• What countries can do now: twenty-nine actions to scale-up and improve the health workforce
  Guidelines
  1 January 2009
• Honouring the human rights to health and freedom of movement
  Technical brief
  1 January 2009
• Health Worker Migration Policy Advisory Council meeting June 2009
  Webcast
  1 January 2009
• Moving forward from Kampala
  Strategic document
  1 January 2009
• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
  World Health Organization, background paper
  1 January 2009
• Working in health. Financing and managing the public sector health workforce
  The World Bank, book
  1 January 2009
• Analysing disrupted health sectors: a modular manual. Module 10: analysing human resources for health
  World Health Organization, guidelines
  1 January 2009
• A cross-country review of strategies of the German development cooperation to strengthen human resources.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Health workforce development planning in the Sultanate of Oman: a case study
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health. Country Profile, Malawi
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Profil en Ressources Humaines en Santé République Islamique de Mauritanie
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, Sudan
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, The Gambia
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, Uganda
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human resource management interventions to improve health workers' performance in low and middle income countries: a realist review
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practicing in rural and other underserved areas.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Physician supply forecast: better than peering in a crystal ball?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Mentoring And Organisational Constraints As Predictors Of Attitudes To Work In The Nigerian Public Health Sector
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• A review of the application and contribution of discrete choice experiments to inform human resources policy interventions
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• From staff-mix to skill-mix and beyond: towards a systemic approach to health workforce management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Guiding principles for national health workforce strategies
  Guidelines
  29 June 2008
• Human Resources for Health Action Framework
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• Regional Observatories on Human Resources in Health Systems
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• HIV and human resources: competing priorities or interconnected solutions?
  Report
  1 January 2008
• Exploring ways for countries to address their HRH crisis
  Report
  1 January 2008
• Working together: addressing the health workforce crisis
  Report
  1 January 2008
• First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. Forum booklet
  Advocacy document
  1 January 2008
• Health workers for all and all for health workers The Kampala Declaration
  Strategic document
  1 January 2008
• GHWA collaboration with eight pathfinder countries - status report
  Report
  1 January 2008
• Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Financing and economic aspects of health workforce scale-up and improvement: framework paper
  Technical brief
  1 January 2008
• Resource requirement tool
  Guidelines
  1 January 2008
• Scaling Up, Saving Lives
  Report
  1 January 2008
• First Coordination Meeting of the GHWA Task Forces and Working Groups
  Report
  1 January 2008
• Guideline for regional HRH country strategic planning
  Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health, guidelines
  1 January 2008
• Health workers for all and all for health workers An Agenda for Global Action
  Strategic document
  1 January 2008
• Malawi's Emergency Human Resources Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Pakistan's Lady Health Worker Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Guidelines: incentives for health professionals
  Guidelines
  1 January 2008
• The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
  Strategic document
  1 January 2008
• Case studies: Iran and Pakistan
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, Dr Mubashar Sheikh, Case study presentation
  1 January 2008
• The Health Workforce: Scaling up through primary health care
  Presentation
  1 January 2008
• Impact des mesures d’incitation financière accordées aux médecins, pharmaciens et chirurgiens dentistes
  Ministère de la Santé Publique, Republique du Niger, Report
  1 January 2008
• Case studies summary
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• The US physician workforce: where do we stand?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• The Looming Crisis in the Health Workforce: how can OECD countries respond?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, health policy
  1 January 2008
• Project OCDE sur la migration des professionels de santé: le cas de la France
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• Health workforce and international migration: can New Zealand compete?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• Migration of health workers: the UK perspective to 2006
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 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
• International recruitment of health personnel: draft global code of practice
  World Health Organization, report
  1 January 2008
• Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Forecasting the global shortage of physicians: an economic- and needs-based approach
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2008
• Human resources for health in Africa: experiences, challenges and realities
  Report
  1 January 2007
• Proposed G8 statement on health workforce
  Advocacy document
  1 January 2007
• Letter on the recently launched International Health Partnership
  Advocacy document
  1 January 2007
• Address by Dr Anders Nordström
  Speech
  1 January 2007
• Africa Health Strategy: 2007-2015
  African Union, strategic document
  1 January 2007
• A review of non-financial incentives for health worker retention in east and southern Africa
  Regional Network for Equity in health in eastern and southern Africa (EQUINET), East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC), University of Limpopo, South Africa, Report
  1 January 2007
• HRH roadmap input
  Advocacy document
  1 January 2007
• The Informed Decisions Toolbox: tools for knowledge transfer and performance improvement
  Article
  1 January 2007
• Immigrant health workers in OECD countries in the broader context of highly skilled migration
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2007
• The metrics and correlates of physician migration from Africa
  Article
  1 January 2007
• Do visas kill? Health effects of African health professional emigration
  Members document
  1 January 2007
• Strategic management of the health workforce in developing countries: what have we learned?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2007
• Speech to the World Health Assembly
  Speech
  1 January 2006
• Migration of health workers - Factsheet 301
  Fact sheet
  1 January 2006
• Migration of health workers
  Fact sheet
  1 January 2006
• GHWA Workplan 2006-2008
  Strategic document
  1 January 2006
• Annual review of HRH situation in Asia-Pacific region 2006-2007
  Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health, Health Human Resources Development Center, Ministry of Health, P.R. China, report
  1 January 2006
• The health workforce in Africa: challenges and prospects
  The Africa Working Group of the Joint Learning initiative on Human Resources for Health and Development, report
  1 January 2006
• The Global Nursing Shortage: Priority Areas for Intervention
  International Council of Nurses, advocacy document
  1 January 2006
• Global Health Workforce Alliance: sharing experiences
  Report
  1 January 2006
• Scaling up health workforce production: a concept paper towards the implementation of World Health Assembly resolution WHA 59.23
  World Health Organization, concept paper
  1 January 2006
• Informal consultation on scaling up health workforce production
  Report
  1 January 2006
• GHWA Strategic Plan 2006
  Strategic document
  1 January 2006
• WHA 59.23 Rapid scaling up of health workforce production
  World Health Organization, resolution
  1 January 2006
• The World Health Report 2006. Working together for health
  Report
  1 January 2006
• The dynamics of the health labour market.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2006
• WHA 58.17 International migration of health personnel: a challenge for health systems in developing countries
  World Health Organization, resolution
  1 January 2005
• Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa. A desk review
  Article
  1 January 2004
• WHA 57.19 International migration of health personnel: a challenge for health systems in developing countries
  World Health Organization, resolution
  1 January 2004
• Dual practice in the health sector: review of the evidence
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2004
• Human resources for health: Requirements and availability in the context of scaling-up priority interventions in low-income countries Case studies from Tanzania and Chad
  Case study
  1 January 2004
• The SAZA study: implementing health financing reform in South Africa and Zambia
  Article
  1 January 2003
• International nurse mobility. Trends and policy implications
  International Council of Nurses, World Health Organization, Royal College of Nursing, report
  1 January 2003
• Technical consultation on Imbalances in the health workforce
  World Health Organization, report
  1 January 2002
• Imbalances in the health workforce. A briefing paper
  World Health Organization, technical brief
  1 January 2002