Call to Action Campaign: Submissions
Overview:
Investing in the health and social workforce is critical to the attainment of the health Sustainable Development Goals. Approximately eighty percent of the investment required to achieve universal health coverage by 2030 is for the education and employment of health personnel. However, the WHO projects a shortfall of 18 million health workers to accelerate universal health coverage by 2030, particularly in low- and lower-middle income countries
Intersectoral action is needed. The failure of global, regional and national health labour markets requires governments and partners across education, employment, health, gender and youth to come together in search of solutions and to leverage investments in jobs. This investment will generate inclusive socio-economic development, particularly for women and youth, in addition to improvements in population health.
Call to Action Campaign
Recognizing the critical role that health worker organizations and youth play in the health labour market, the World Health Organization has launched a call to action campaign which aims to stimulate bold collaborative actions of healthcare professional associations and youth organizations with member states to implement ambitious solutions by 2023 to address the health workforce shortfall at country level.
Many contributions by key stakeholders were made through four consultations in 2016 and 2017 which informed the recommendations of the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth and the ILO-WHO-OECD Working for Health Five Year Action Plan. Furthermore, Member States have affirmed their commitment to address the issues facing the health workforce by adopting resolution WHA69.19 which endorsed the “Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030”. The call to action serves to accelerate progress towards the 2020 global milestones for the Global Strategy and build further momentum for country impact.
Contributions were open to everyone. A total of 43 complete submissions were received in response to the first round between 17 April – 18 May 2019. Contributors could submit individual or joint actions that have impact at country, regional or international level. Submissions of up to 750 words description of the action were accepted. This document presents 32 selected submissions from the first round, without editorial revisions and in the order in which they were received for contributors that provided permission to publish.
Disclaimer: Contributors who have submitted comments via this call have given consent to WHO to publish their submissions.
