HRH Global Resource Center - HRH Overview

Transforming the Global Health Workforce

Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:31:28 +0000

This book addresses key issues that countries face today in building, retaining, and deploying a competent and skilled workforce in an increasingly globalized environment. The authors examine critical issues and discuss how countries and stakeholders are incorporating innovative responses to the health workforce supply and demand challenges of the 21st century. [from preface]

Human Resources for Health: Critical for Effective Universal Health Coverage

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:49:43 +0000

This document explores lessons learned from health related MDGs, the priority health agenda for the 15 years after 2015, bridging health workforce gaps to achieve universal health coverage and indicators and targets for health. [adapted from author]

HRH Training Module

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:03:49 +0000

This free training module is designed for people who wish to acquire introductory knowledge about HRH. It provides an overview of related topics that forms the larger context of HRH. It is also designed to serve as a refresher module to those who have more advanced knowledge in HRH.

Health Workforce Crisis

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:43:58 +0000

The author posits that the evaluation of discrete choice experiments for recruitment and retention of health workers and other experiments, including an articulated research agenda, can allow the development of policy and program options to deal with a golbal health workforce crisis that has curtailed the capacity of national health systems to improve the health of their populations. [adapted from author]

Human Resources for Health in Uganda: Dispatches from the Field

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:01:01 +0000

This 54 minute video shares a presentation from Uganda’s Dr. Edward Mukooza. Drawing on his first-hand experience of serving as principal of the International Christian Medical Institute and of training and mentoring hundreds of health workers currently working at all levels of Uganda’s health system, Dr. Mukooza addresses the current status of human resources for health in Uganda. [adapted from publisher

That's Improvement: Uganda Focuses on Health Workers

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:47:03 +0000

In this short video, Ugandan health workers, managers, and leaders show how the country’s efforts to strengthen its health workforce and increase access to quality care are paying off—and how service delivery has improved. [adapted from publisher]

Increasing Human Resources for Health

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:53:22 +0000

In this short, 2 minute video, Charmaine Pattinson of the Clinton Health Access Initiative discusses the need for increasing human resources for health in the developing world. [from publisher]

Strengthening Human Resources for Health in Cote d'Ivoire

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:48:00 +0000

This 4.5 minute video talks about the HRH issues and the importance of strengthening HRH for health services in Cote d’Ivoire and a Health Systems 20/20 project that worked with in-country partners to improve production of health workers, create incentives to motivate health workers to move to the underserved north, and build health management capacity. [adapted from publisher]

Women Deliver Delegates on the Importance of Skilled Health Workers

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:43:43 +0000

This 3 minute video is from the 2013 Women Deliver conference where Save the Children’s EVERY ONE campaign spoke with Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, Minister of State for Health, Nigeria; Anuradha Gupta, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health, India and Dr. Awa Coll-Seck, Minister of Health, Senegal on why trained health workers are critical to achieving the Millenium Development Goals.

KIT Dossier Human Resources for Health

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:54:29 +0000

This dossier is about human resources for health (HRH), an essential part of health systems, and aims to provide background information on the field. [adapted from author]