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
Summary
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
