Assessing Financing, Education, Management and Policy Context for Strategic Planning of Human Resources for Health.
[Book]
Geneva :
World Health Organization,
2007.
1 online resource (90 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminaries; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction; Timeline for applying the tool; Analyses; Level of human resources for health; Distribution of human resources for health; Performance of human resources for health; Cross cutting problems concerning human resources for health; Financing; Education; Management; Policy making for human resources for health; Assessing the current status of the health workforce; Developing criteria for prioritizing problems; Choosing policies to improve the health workforce; Sequencing the implementation of policies.
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This book contains a method for assessing the financial, educational and management systems and policy context, essential for strategic planning and policy-development for human resources for health. This tool has been developed as an evidence-based comprehensive diagnostic aid to inform policy-making in low and middle income countries in regards to human resources for health. It does so in three stages by assessing the current status of the health workforce and capacities for health workforce policy implementation with a particular focus on four aspects - finance, education, management, and p.