Guide to health workforce development in post-conflict environments

Overview

This volume presents an overview of how countries emerging from years of conflict and disruption of the social fabric have tackled the sometimes thorny issues of rebuilding a health workforce. It presents strengths and pitfalls encountered. It highlights the challenges to newly emerging national authorities to bring together the still functioning elements of the national health system. It discusses the challenges to integrating a multitude of well-intentioned international agencies and contributors to post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation, and restoring population health.