The National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA)
12 September 2019 | Questions and answers
Information generated by the NHWA can assist Member States to develop health workforce policies, strategies and planning options to support the delivery of national health policy objectives. Progressive implementation of the NHWA will enable:
- a better understanding of the health workforce, including its characteristics, size and distribution;
- strengthened human resources information systems and research to guide policy decisions;
- multistakeholder and intersectoral policy dialogue for health workforce strengthening; and
- improved prioritization and planning of investment in the development of a sustainable health workforce towards universal health coverage.
WHO/Europe has prepared a series of policy scenarios to assist Member States in considering how the NHWA can support them to address health workforce challenges and to design health workforce policies and strategies. These are available in the resource pack below.
Member States can nominate NHWA focal points and request access to the data platform by contacting hrhstatistics@who.int.