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Labour Economist – Health Labour Market and partnerships
Labour Economist in the Health Labour Market and Partnerships team
Email: bustamantej@who.int
Health labour market and partnerships
Analysing the health labour market is essential to achieve a better understanding of the forces that drive health worker shortages and surpluses, skills mix and geographical imbalances and suboptimal performance, and to develop effective policies to address these issues.
To that end, the Health Labour Market team develops guidance and technical products related to health labour market analysis and is conducting health labour market analyses in countries together with colleagues from WHO regions and WHO country offices.
A well conducted health labour market analysis is critical to providing reliable information on the main dimensions of the health workforce, notably in terms of availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality. Health labour market analysis is not an end on its own but a crucial element in health workforce policy development and is instrumental in answering important policy questions related to health workforce.
Publications
Health labour market analysis in Tajikistan
The Health Labour Market Analysis (HLMA) was undertaken to understand the health workforce situation in Tajikistan to inform the development...
Assessing employment effects for the health and care workforce: a guiding framework
For policy makers, it is essential to assess the employment effects of policy interventions that increase and strengthen the health and care workforce....
Health labour market analysis: Chhattisgarh - policy brief
Health Labor Market Analysis (HLMA) is used to identify and address workforce challenges. The HLMA in Chhattisgarh focuses on Medical Officers, specialist...
Impact of COVID-19 on Human Resources for Health and Policy Response: the Case of Belize, Grenada, and...
Health workers are crucial in the preparedness and response to COVID-19, but the pandemic has evidenced the shortage of human resources for health (HRH)...
Health labour market analysis: Chhattisgarh
Health Labor Market Analysis is used to identify and address workforce challenges. The HLMA in Chhattisgarh focuses on Medical Officers, specialist doctors,...
Impact of COVID-19 on human resources for health and policy response: the case of Plurinational State...
In the International Year of Health and Care Workers (2021) and in an effort to support countries in the design and implementation of strategies to address...
Technical documents
This policy brief was prepared by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies for the Fifth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health.Towards...
Health labour market policies in support of universal health coverage: a comprehensive analysis in four...
In this paper, we use a health labour market framework to investigate the key indicators of the dynamics of the health labour market in Cameroon, Kenya,...
Universal health coverage depends on having the necessary human resources to deliver health care services. Cameroon is among the African countries currently...
External publications
Investing in human resources for health in French-speaking Africa: the contribution of the Muskoka project
A technical framework for costing health workforce retention schemes in remote and rural areas
Rural Urban Imbalance of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Multimedia
Tools
Health labour market analysis guidebook
Our work in countries
Health labour market analysis in Tajikistan
Related topics
Health workforce impact assessments
Resolution WHA69.19 on the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030, adopted by the 69th World Health Assembly in May 2016 includes three key actions related to assessing the health workforce implications of health policy and programmes:
- Development partners, including bilateral partners and multilateral aid mechanisms, will augment, coordinate and align their investments in education, employment, health, gender and labour in support of domestic financing aimed at addressing national health workforce priorities
- Global health initiatives will ensure that all grants include an assessment of health workforce implications, leverage national coordination and leadership, and contribute to efficient investment in and effective implementation of national health workforce policies
- An assessment of the health workforce implications will be made for technical resolutions brought before the World Health Assembly and WHO regional committees.
This section presents health workforce impact assessments for technical documents that have been submitted for discussion by the Executive Board and World Health Assembly.
72nd World Health Assembly
Roadmap on access to medicines, vaccines and health products 2019–2023
72nd World Health Assembly, May 2019