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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454104003321

Titolo

Strengthening national and subnational departments for human resources development [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2008

ISBN

92-9021-672-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (60 p.)

Collana

Health workforce development series, , 1999-7787 ; ; 1

Disciplina

362.10683

Soggetti

Medical personnel - Supply and demand - Middle East

Occupational training - Government policy - Middle East

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-42).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1. Establishing, maintaining and monitoring human resources development departments; 1. Introduction; 2. Guiding principles; 3. The human resources for health framework; 4. Establishing national departments and subnational units; 5. Sustaining departments and units; 6. Getting started: 8 practical steps in building sustainable capacity for human resources development departments; Part 2. Institutional strengthening tools

Sommario/riassunto

There is a growing health workforce crisis in many countries. In the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, the disparity in supply and demand, geographic maldistribution in urban and rural settings and imbalance in the number of different categories of professionals, represent further dimensions of the crisis facing health system development and its health workforce. Human resources for health include trained health professionals as well as non-health professionals working in health systems and those who have gained some caring knowledge and skills and volunteer to support health in families and c