Background Effective action, both urgent and sustained, to address the growing health
workforce crisis requires solid information, reliable research and a firm knowledge base …

The 2006 World Health Report contains both an expert assessment of the current crisis in
the global health workforce and an ambitious set of proposals to tackle it over the next ten …

There is growing recognition that the progressive realization of universal health coverage
(UHC) is dependent on a sufficient, equitably distributed and well performing health …

HEALTH WORKFORCE Page 1 HEALTH WORKFORCE 2030 Towards a global strategy on
human resources for health SYNTHESIS PAPER OF THE THEMATIC WORKING GROUPS …

With increased globalization and interdependence among countries, sustained health
worker migration and the complex threats of rapidly spreading infectious diseases, as well …

Human resources for health have been recognized as essential to the development of
responsive and effective health systems. Low-and middle-income countries seeking to …

A health workforce of adequate size and skills is critical to the attainment of any population
health goal. However, countries at all levels of socioeconomic development face, to varying …

Background Health services depend critically on the size, skills, and commitment of the
health workforce. Yet, in many countries relevant information on health workers remain far …

Efforts to develop the public health workforce since 2001 have benefited from increased
funding resulting from concerns over terrorism and other public health threats. This largesse …

This paper reviews the challenges facing the public health workforce in developing
countries and the main policy issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the …