Europe develops action plan to address health workforce shortfall

Commitment and action to boost health workforce.

The pivotal role of health workers in enabling countries to scale up access to health services and progress to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has long been recognised. In 2006, the World Health Report drew attention to the global health workforce crisis and its dramatic impact in 57 priority countries aff ected by severe shortages, inequitable distribution, poor motivati...

New WHO Europe action plan to fight MDR-TB.

As the multidrugand extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) is spreading at alarming rates in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region – about 81,000 (18.4%) of the estimated 440,000 patients worldwide with MDR-TB are considered to live in this region – the WHO Regional Office for Europe has launched an action plan to contain the spread of drugresistant TB in the region by...

A federal plan to address seniors' health and well-being.

Essential levels of health information in Europe: an action plan for a coherent and sustainable infrastructure.

The European Union needs a common health information infrastructure to support policy and governance on a routine basis. A stream of initiatives conducted in Europe during the last decade resulted into several success stories, but did not specify a unified framework that could be broadly implemented on a continental level. The recent debate raised a potential controversy on the different roles ...

Health strengthening plan, a supplement to Iran health transformation plan: letter to the editor

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