Conflict Affected Regions

This paper seeks to elucidate HRH issues in the critical startup period of reconstruction in countries that have experienced relatively prolonged and major conflict. The examples are drawn mostly from Afghanistan and Cambodia, two countries that experienced more than twenty years of conflict. [from author]

This analytical report is conducted to measure the gap between the available staffing resources of health services in greater Darfur and the identified minimum standards to be attained in disaster assistance. Key indicators of staffing levels (i.e. home visitors, doctors, health workers, ORT, etc) are used to measure these standards. Different levels of PHC system (i.e., community level, peripheral health facility, central health facility, and referral hospital level) are presented to show the coverage of the medical staffing resources per states on locality levels. [author’s description]

Designed to assist in re-establishing health services in a context of political and economical instability, this guide provides practical information and tools for rebuilding a health workforce, as well as examples from post-conflict countries. [publisher’s description]

The document aims to analyse the health system in Sudan, to identify the new challenges brought about by the new context, and on this basis to present a post-conflict strategic framework for the health sector. Chapter 3 presents an overview of the health sector. Available data on infrastructures and human resources indicate wide inequality across states in resource availability. The findings of sub-sector reviews consistently point to the overall low technical and managerial capacity at local level, the lack of recurrent funds and the high attrition of health workers, due to low salaries and difficult working conditions. [from executive summary]

The challenges inherent in planning, developing and supporting a sustainable health care workforce are all the more difficult in countries where conflict or the aftermath of conflict can impede the implementation of short- and long-term approaches to building human resources for health (HRH). Based on field experiences implementing programs in such situations and supplemented by a carefully targeted literature review, this resource paper explores operational challenges, opportunities and goals common to initiating HRH programs in conflict and post-conflict situations. [introduction]

This draft presents a concise situational analysis and the preliminary steps for creating a recovery strategy, including details of the health human resource situation and an outline of the interventions for building the health workforce.

This paper discusses how Mozambique coped with the health system needs in terms of specialized doctors since independence, in a troubled context of war, lack of financial resources and modifying settings of foreign aid. The Ministry of Health (MOH) managed to make up for its severe scarcity of specialist MDs especially through contracting expatriate technical assistance.

This report describes how the war in Iraq and its aftermath continue to have a disastrous impact on the physical and mental health of the Iraqi people, and the urgent measures needed to improve health and health services. It assesses the current state of the health system, including the impact of insecurity, and the workforce, supplies, medicines and equipment it lacks. It also looks at health information and health policy in Iraq. The report ends with conclusions and recommendations, exploring what needs to happen now in Iraq and what lessons can be learned. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses training Clinical Officers, a cadre of mid-level health professionals, as a method of filling the health worker gap in a post-conflict area.