Resource Spotlight: What Countries Can Do Now: Twenty-Nine Actions to Scale-Up and Improve the Health Workforce
Health workers play a critical role in the provision of health care and represent the single largest cost element in providing health services in low-income countries. Many of the poorest countries in the world have been unable to meet the pressing health needs of their populations. Millions of people die prematurely, or suffer from illness or disability unnecessarily, because appropriate human resources for health (HRH) to provide care are not available to them.
While the health workforce situation is complex and addressing it requires a long term commitment from multiple stakeholders, there are actions that countries could take immediately to alleviate the health conditions of their populations. This document explains seven financing and economic issues that matter for health workforce scale-up and financing. It then states twenty-nine actions that policy-makers could take right away to address the issues, independent of any long-term HRH interventions in progress. [from introduction]
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The HRH Global Resource Center has other resources on this topic including:
- Financing and Economic Aspects of Health Workforce Scale-Up and Improvement: Framework Paper
- Role Measuring Expenditure for the Health Workforce: Evidence and Challenges
- Macroeconomic and Fiscal Issues in Scaling Up Human Resources for Health in Low-Income Countries
For additional resources on this topic, visit the Financial Aspects subject category.
Past Resource Spotlights
- Scaling Up Proven Public Health Interventions through a Locally Owned and Sustained Leadership Development Program in Rural Upper Egypt
- Planning the Development of Human Resources for Health for Implementation of the Stop TB Strategy
- Training Health Workers in Africa: Documenting Faith-Based Organizations' Contributions
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