Capacity building and health worker training
Human resources and the success of health sector reform
Three diverse case studies on the importance of human resources to successful health system reforms
Authors:
T. Martineau; J. Buchan
Publisher:
American Public Health Association , 2000
With case studies from the Republic of Karelia in Russia, Zambia and the United Kingdom the authors pose three key diagnostic questions intended to help policy makers and planners to identify some of the key issues related to Human Resources (HR) when developing and implementing health sector reform.
In a short paper presented at the 128th annual pubic meeting of the American Public Health Association the authors situate the health context for each of the countries and then subject the case studies to the following questions:
- Is HR an integral element of the reforms agenda, from pre-planning through to implementation and evaluation?
- Is there sufficient capacity to implement the necessary changes in HR, and to deal with the challenges that will arise?
- Does the health care workforce understand the need for the reforms? To what extent does it support the reform plan?
