Tools
Evidence-based information is needed to better understand HRH trends. Although a range of information sources exist that could be used for HRH assessments, there is a lack of any relevant analysis. In order to reflect and address the complexity of HRH issues, a variety of data sources and analytical approaches, each with its own strengths and limitations, is required.
In order to improve and compare understandings of the health workforce across and between countries, data collection needs to follow internationally standardised classifications at the greatest level of detail possible.
The attached information and table, taken from a report by the Joint Learning Initiative, at the Global health trust, outlines a range of methods and tools for assessing the health workforce.
In order to improve and compare understandings of the health workforce across and between countries, data collection needs to follow internationally standardised classifications at the greatest level of detail possible.
The attached information and table, taken from a report by the Joint Learning Initiative, at the Global health trust, outlines a range of methods and tools for assessing the health workforce.
- Human resources in the health sector: an international perspective
- ( J. Martínez; T. Martineau / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2002)
- If poverty cannot be eradicated without a sound macroeconomic context, neither can health care improve without stronger focus on human resources (HR). This is the central thesis of this issues paper ...
- Achieving the right balance: the role of policy-making processes in managing human resources for health problems
- ( E. Egger; D. Lipson; O. Adams / World Health Organization , 2000)
- There is often a gap between health policy formulation and its practical implementation. This discussion paper seeks to understand the cause of that gap and uses a WHO framework for correcting what i...
- Assessing human resources for health: what can be learned from labour force surveys?
- ( N. Gupta; K. Diallo; P. Zurn; M. R. Dal Poz / Human Resources for Health , 2003)
- Human resources are an essential element of a health system's inputs, and yet there is a huge disparity among countries in how human resource policies and strategies are developed and implemented. The...
- Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis
- ( World Health Organization , 2004)
- This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI). The report highlights major global challenges in human resources for health. These include: global short...
- Promoting institutional and organisational development
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2003)
- This paper from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) argues that development interventions are more likely to succeed if they promote improvements at the wider level of...
