Thematic Guide: Human Resources for Health
Our thematic guide to internet resources leads you beyond the limits of the Medicus Mundi International Network. For resources related to international migration and recruitment, please use the specific guide. For MMI Network resources, please refer to our HRH main page. Any important resources missing? Please let us know.
Civil Society: Advocacy and Networking
- Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI)
The Medicus Mundi International Network is a member of the civil-society led network of the Global Health Workforce Alliance that is hosted, since July 2011, by the MMI Network member Wemos.
http://hwai.org - More Health Workers!
"The world is suffering from a massive gap of more than 3.5 million health workers.
Join with over 300 organisations who have already signed up to our urgent call for more health workers, better supported."
www.morehealthworkers.org/
Global Initiatives and Thematic Leaders
- Global Health Workforce Alliance GHWA
The Medicus Mundi International Network is a member of the GHWA, "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." The Alliance is hosted and administered by the World Health Organization.
www.who.int - WHO programme: Health workforce
"Currently, there is a global crisis of the health workforce, expressed by acute shortages and maldistribution of health workers, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. To respond to this crisis, policies and actions are needed to address the dynamics of the health labour market, the production and management of the health workforce, and to improve the distribution and performance of existing health workers."
www.who.int - CapacityPlus
"The USAID-funded global project uniquely focused on the health workforce needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Placing health workers at the center of every effort, CapacityPlus helps countries achieve significant progress in addressing the health worker crisis while also having global impact through alliances with multilateral organizations. The project builds on the successful work of the Capacity Project, which worked in 47 countries."
www.capacityplus.org
WHO and GHWA: Key documents
- From Kampala to Bangkok: Reviewing Progress, Renewing Commitments
GHWA 2011, Outcome Statement of the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health
www.who.int/workforcealliance - Health Workforce strengthening
WHO 2011, Executive Board Resolution (EB128.R9)
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha - Progress report on the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
GHWA 2011, Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health
www.who.int/workforcealliance - Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
GHWA 2008, First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health
www.who.int/workforcealliance - Working together for health
WHO 2006, The World Health Report
www.who.int
Resources and Tools
- GHWA Knowledge Centre
"The Alliance Knowledge centre, which includes a range of resources - developed by the Alliance Secretariat, Alliance members and partners, and other external entities - regarding the health workforce crisis and the response."
www.who.org - HRH Action Framework
"The framework presented here is designed to assist governments and health managers to develop and implement strategies to achieve an effective and sustainable health workforce. By using a comprehensive approach, the Framework will help you address staff shortages, uneven distribution of staff, gaps in skills and competencies, low retention and poor motivation, among other challenges." www.capacityproject.org - Addressing the Health Workforce Crisis
The purpose of this toolkit created by the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative is to assist health professionals, health professional associations, and civil society organizations to develop advocacy strategies to address human resource and health financing issues in their countries.
www.healthworkforce.info - PDF - Eldis Dossier: Human resources for health
"This dossier offers practical up to date information about how to address human resource problems and issues, drawing upon evidence about what works, and identifying innovations in approaches, policy and practice."
www.eldis.org - Journal: Human resources for health
"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."
www.human-resources-health.com
- HRH Global Resource Center
"The Center provides support to human resources for health (HRH) stakeholders and decision makers by helping them find the resources they need in a searchable, online library and offers personalized support from an experienced knowledge management team."
www.hrhresourcecenter.org - Global Atlas of
the Health Workforce
WHO Department of Human Resources for Health, 2008
www.who.int
- Working together for health
The World Health Report 2006
www.who.int
Recent Papers
- Human Resources for Health: Strengthening health systems - assuring service delivery - improving health
SolidarMed position paper, 2011 (pdf)
www.solidarmed.ch - Guidelines for Forming and Sustaining Human Resources for Health Stakeholder Leadership Groups
Wilma J. Gormley, Jim McCaffery, 2011 (pdf)
www.capacityplus.org - Missing
Midwives
Save the Children report shortage of 350,000 trained midwives in developing countries. 2011 (pdf)
http://bit.ly/fDG4vn - Human Resource Challenges in Faith Based Organizations
CONTACT, a WCC Magazine, 2011
www.africachap.org - Setting targets and strategies to close the global health worker gap
HWAI Platform at 2nd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, endorsed by the Medicus Mundi International Network, Bangkok, January 2011
www.savethechildren.org.uk - Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention. Global policy recommendations
After a year-long consultative effort, this WHO document proposes sixteen evidence-based recommendations on how to improve the recruitment and retention of health workers in underserved areas. It also offers a guide for policy makers to choose the most appropriate interventions, and to implement, monitor and evaluate their impact over time. WHO 2010
www.who.int - Health Workers urgently needed to reach health MDGs
"This Action for Global Health's briefing paper looks into the causes of the health worker crisis in developing countries and calls on EU leaders to urgently tackle the issue." AFGH 2010
www.actionforglobalhealth.eu - Scaling up, Saving Lives
The report issued by an international group of experts in health and education at a side event during the 61st World Health Assembly, stresses the need for urgent action to address the acute shortages of health workers. WHO 2008 www.who.int - Addressing the Health Workforce Crisis:
A Toolkit for Health Professional Advocates
“This toolkit was created by the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, the civil society-led network of the Global Health Workforce Alliance. The purpose of this toolkit is to assist health professionals, health professional associations, and civil society organizations to develop advocacy strategies to address human resource and health financing issues in their countries.” - P. Dahoust et al., 2008 www.healthworkforce.info - Addressing the Human Resource in Health Crisis: Empowering the Private Not for Profit Health Training Institutions to Play Their Role
“This presentation was part of the International Conference on Global Health session, ‘Answering the Call: Innovations in Human Resources by African Faith-Based Organizations.’ From the perspective of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau experience, the presentation discusses why the private not-for-profit sector is important in service provision and training; why nurses are in the midst of the human resource crisis; obstacles to increasing the training capacity; and what the PNFP health training institutions are doing to address their weaknesses." - M. Verhallen, D. Giusti, N. Bolan 2006
www.globalhealth.org
Conferences and Conference Documentations
- Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health
25-29 January, 2011, Bangkok, Thailand
"The second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health will review and assess progress made on the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Actions; celebrate successes and identify gaps and new challenges for the health workforce crisis." The Forum report is available now on the GHWA website.
GHWA - First Consultation of the African Platform on Human Resources for Health
12-14 October 2010, Nairobi, Kenya
"The purpose of the Consultation is to take stock of progress, achievements and lessons in HRH, and also share experiences, innovations and lessons in critical areas affecting the health workforce in Africa."
GHWA - GHWA: First informal consultation of advocates and communicators
on Human Resources for Health, 19-20 November 2009
About 30 representatives from the Alliance member civil society groups, health care professional associations, media and international organizations participated in the meeting specifically aimed at reflecting on achievements and lessons learnt so far, while developing shared vision and priorities for 2010-2011.
GHWA
- First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health
Kampala, 2-7 March 2008
The first-ever Global Forum on Human Resources for Health called for immediate and sustained action to resolve the critical shortage of health workers around the world, setting out which lays out the essential steps that need to be taken over the next decade to turn the crisis around. The Forum, held in Kampala, Uganda, and organized by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), endorsed the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action. Conference documents:
GHWA
