Education (pre-service training)

Scaling Up, Saving Lives

The Task Force concluded its work in mid 2008 and its report "Scaling Up Saving Lives" was launched at the 61st World Health Assembly in May 2008. Accompanying the report are a series of country case studies, commissioned as part of the Task Force work. So far the five published country case studies are from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India and Malawi. These case studies describe successful scale up models which are central in bringing about improvements in the health status of their populations.

• Full report
  pdf, 1.16Mb
• Executive summary
  pdf, 219kb
• Country case studies

Other key publications and documents

• Working for Health Equity: The Role of Health Professionals
  Healthcare system and workforce’s role in reducing health inequalities through action on the social determinants of health.
  1 March 2013
• E-learning in medical education in resource constrained low- and middle-income countries
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:4 (4 February 2013)
  1 February 2013
• The promise of competency-based education in the health professions for improving global health
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:43 (16 November 2012)
  1 November 2012
• Pakistan: WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel - Implementation Strategy Report, 2011
  Alliance document
  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
• Building an Effective Workforce: A Systematic Review of Public Health Workforce Literature
  Article published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012, Volume 42, Issue 5, Supplement 1, May 2012, Pages S6–S16
  1 May 2012
• Public Health Workforce Research in Review : A 25-Year Retrospective
  Article published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012,Volume 42, Issue 5, Supplement 1, May 2012, Pages S17–S28
  1 May 2012
• The effects of midwives' job satisfaction on burnout, intention to quit and turnover: a longitudinal study in Senegal
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:9 (30 April 2012)
  1 May 2012
• A survey of Sub-Saharan African medical schools
  Article published in Human Resources for Health online journal, 2012
  1 March 2012
• Masters Nursing Students' Perceptions of an Innovative Simulation Education Experience
  Article Published by Elsevier Inc.
  18 January 2012
• Human resources for mental health care: current situation and strategies for action
  This is the fifth in a Series of six papers about global mental health
  1 December 2011
• Health Worker Shortages and Global Justice
  Milbank Memorial Fund Report
  1 December 2011
• Educating a New Generation of Doctors to Improve the Health of Populations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  A new study points out to the pressing need of a transformation of medical education among poor countries.
  20 October 2011
• Health Service Academy Post Graduate certificate in Human Resources for Health Management Summary Report
  HRH Management course summary report, 2011
  1 October 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
• Mid-level health providers a promising resource to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, Report
  30 December 2010
• Chances for Change
  Wemos Foundation, Report
  30 December 2010
• The Sub-Saharan African Medical Schools Study - SAMSS
  Web site
  8 November 2010
• MeduProf-S Academy: on-line learning environment
  Meduprof-S / E-learning
  15 September 2010
• Case Study: Scaling Up Education and Training of Human Resources for Health in Ethiopia. Moving towards achieving the MDGs.
  Case Study
  26 February 2010
• Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Effective scale-up: avoiding the same old traps
  Article
  1 January 2009
• Understanding health workforce wastage in Mexico
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• What countries can do now: twenty-nine actions to scale-up and improve the health workforce
  Guidelines
  1 January 2009
• Programme evaluation training for health professionals in francophone Africa: process, competence acquisition and use
  Article
  1 January 2009
• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
  World Health Organization, background paper
  1 January 2009
• Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Health workforce development planning in the Sultanate of Oman: a case study
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management
  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
• healthtraining.org
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• HINARI
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• Health workforce education and training
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• Pharmacy education
  Online journal
  1 January 2008
• The Public Health Initiative
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• Virtual campus of public health
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• HIV and human resources: competing priorities or interconnected solutions?
  Report
  1 January 2008
• Central America Field Epidemiology Training Program (CA FETP): a pathway to sustainable public health capacity development
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Ensuring accountability on health workforce targets
  Advocacy document
  1 January 2008
• Monitoring education and training for health workers
  Fact sheet
  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
• Appropriate training and retention of community doctors in rural areas: a case study from Mali
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Bangladesh trains health workers to reduce maternal mortality
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Ethiopia's human resources for health programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  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
• The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
  Strategic document
  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
• 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
• 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
• How much does quality of child care vary between health workers with differing durations of training? An observational multicountry study
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Global Health Partnerships - The UK Contribution to health in developing countries
  Report
  1 January 2007
• Strengthening Management In Low-Income Countries: Lessons From Uganda A Case Study On Management Of Health Services Delivery
  Members document
  1 January 2007
• 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
• WHA 59.23 Rapid scaling up of health workforce production
  World Health Organization, resolution
  1 January 2006
• Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa. A desk review
  Article
  1 January 2004