Health Workforce

Building National, Self-Sufficient Health Systems - Facing the Challenge of the Global Health Workers' Shortage. Surfacing some of the Debates on the Health Workforce Crisis, Edlira Xhafa (2007)

 

Sustaining Strategies addressing the Human Resources for Health Crisis through Union Participation, Xhafa, Edlira (2006)

The paper deals with the issue of human resources for health crisis from a governance perspective and emphasises the trade union role in drawing long-term sustainable strategies to tackle the crisis.

Policy Statement on International Migration with Particular Reference to Health Services, PSI

 

Who Cares? Women Health Workers in the Global Labour Market, PSI, edited by Kim Van Eyck

This book contains a collection of 14 in-depth interviews with women health workers from different parts of the globe, who have migrated for work or are considering doing so. It gives voice to the dilemmas facing health workers and provides a much-needed complement to our understanding of gender-based inequalities and the global economics of health. It provides vital insights for policy makers, governments, trade unionists and civil society at large, concerned about the future of our global health system.

Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA)

The Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) is a partnership hosted and administered by the World Health Organization. The Global Health Workforce Alliance is a partnership dedicated to identifying and implementing solutions to the health workforce crisis. It brings together a variety of actors, including national governments, civil society, finance institutions, workers, international agencies, academic institutions and professional associations.

Human Resources for Health

It is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal covering all aspects of planning, producing and managing the health workforce - all those who provide health services worldwide.

International Labour Organization (ILO)

The ILO website on health offers a good overview of critical issues of concern for health workers: employment, labour standards, gender issues, labour relations and social dialogue, remuneration, violence at the working place, migration of health workers and HIV/AIDS. It provides an insight on each issue and puts forward a list of key readings related to them.

Public Services International (PSI)

The PSI website offers very interesting papers on the issues of concern for health care workers as health and safety at work, HIV/AIDS and nursing issues, as well as issues of health systems as reforms and privatisation and migration of health workers.

World Health Organisation (WHO) - Human Resources for Health

This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.

Background Papers to the WHO Report 2006

 

The World Health Report 2006 - working together for Health, WHO

The report contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately. Focusing on all stages of the health workers' career lifespan from entry to health training, to job recruitment through to retirement, the report lays out a ten-year action plan in which countries can build their health workforces, with the support of global partners.

Guidelines on Incentives for Health Professionals

Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, 2008. The report underlines how incentives are important levers that organizations can use to attract, retain, motivate and improve the performance of their staff in all professions and walks of life, This is especially and urgently needed in the health care sector, it states, where the growing gap between the supply of health care professionals and the demand for their services is reaching crisis levels in many countries.

Incentives for Health Worker Retention in Kenya: An Assessment of Current Practice

David M Ndetei, Lincoln Khasakhala, Jacob O Omolo Africa Mental Health Foundation (AMHF), Institute of Policy, 2008. Analysis and Research (IPAR), KenyaThis report is of a literature review and field research on strategies for the retention of health workers in Kenya. It examines trends in health worker recruitment and retention; existing policies, strategies and interventions to retain health workers; and assesses their implementation and the factors affecting this. Recommendations are proposed for measures to retain health workers in rural areas, in lower-income districts and at lower levels of the health system to ensure that all areas reach minimum standards with regard to numbers of personnel per population. Such incentives are not only financial.