Healthcare Systems and Organizations: Implications for Health Human Resources

Healthcare systems and organizations: implications for health human resources.

What will the healthcare system and healthcare organizations look like in the year 2020? What requirements will they have for health human resources? This article is organized in five brief sections, beginning with looking backward to look forward and proceeding through key trends, organizational evolution by sector and future health organizations and concluding with 10 implications for health ...

Accountability in healthcare organizations and systems.

The implications of health sector reform for human resources development.

The authors argue that "health for all" is not achievable in most countries without health sector reform that incorporates a process of coordinated health and human resources development. They examine the situation in countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization. Though advances have been made, further progress is inhibited by the limited adaptation of traditio...

[Human resources for health].

El mundo enfrenta una crisis de recursos humanos en salud, la cual afecta particularmente a países en vías de desarrollo. De acuerdo al Informe sobre la salud en el mundo del 2006 (1), existe un grupo de 57 países, la mayoría de ellos africanos, con deficiencias críticas en la cantidad de personal de salud. El Perú posee el triste privilegio de ser el único país sudamericano considerado en este...

Human Resources for Health

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