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- Title
Mapping health workforce development strategies across key global health agencies: an assessment of objectives and key interventions.
- Authors
Farrenkopf, Brooke A; Lee, Chung-Won
- Abstract
The political and financial commitment to addressing the global shortage of health workers is stronger than ever before. Therefore, the global effort to strengthen human resources for health (HRH) must be co-ordinated and aligned to strategically utilize the current momentum and create sustainable impact. This paper assesses HRH strategies to (1) create greater understanding on the collective global action towards improving HRH, and (2) identify opportunities for greater co-ordination to improve sustainable health workforce development. We searched published and grey literature to identify the HRH strategies of select large-scale global health organizations. The most common approaches were increasing the supply of health workers, facilitating training and education and improving health worker management capacities. Overall, our analysis shows there is a need to (1) improve co-ordination among development partners, (2) ensure strong engagement and leadership of national governments and (3) generate scientific evidence on the best approaches for sustainable workforce development.
- Subjects
LABOR supply; GREY literature; HUMAN capital; COLLECTIVE action; HEALTH products
- Publication
Health Policy & Planning, 2019, Vol 34, Issue 6, p461
- ISSN
0268-1080
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/heapol/czz015