From workforce intelligence to workforce development: advancing the Eastern Mediterranean pharmaceutical workforce for better health outcomes

WHO EMRO | A strategic framework for health workforce development in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Universal health coverage – defined as all people being able to use needed health services with sufficient quality to be effective without financial hardship (1) – is a shared vision of health system development for Member States in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), and a major element of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, which came into force on 1 January 2016 (2). The S...

Global Health Workforce Alliance: increasing the momentum for health workforce development.

The Global Health Workforce Alliance was launched in 2006 to provide a joint platform for governments, development partners, international agencies, civil society organizations, academia, private sector, professional associations, and other stakeholders to work together to address a global crisis in human resources for health. Five years later the vision and mandate of the Alliance still remain...

The health workforce.

The health and social care workforce is now the largest segment of the Australian workforce with over 1.4million workers. In a personnel-intensive industry such as health,workforce is themost important single issue to address as we look to the future of our health system. Driven as it is by the increasing demand of chronic disease, ageing and a population that has a voracious appetite for healt...

ACU workforce column: expanding and supporting the health care workforce.

Paying for the health workforce.

ay ad pr and rem P ment and funding are often regarded as ministrative transfers; and yet, funding is rarely ovided without strings attached. Where funding uneration are made conditional on certain behaviours (eg, working a set number of hours, seeing a certain number of patients, undertaking specific tasks or tasks of a certain standard, or “doing a good job”), financial incentives are created...