This report was commissioned by the Global Health Workforce Alliance Secretariat and the World Health Organization to consolidate the latest information available on human resources for health and inform the global community on how to attain, sustain and accelerate progress on universal health coverage. It was launched at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. … [Read more...] about A Universal Truth: No Health Without A Workforce
Human Resources Management/Workforce Development
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Report on Work Force Capacity and HIV/AIDS
The paucity of trained health professionals and other human resources to combat HIV/AIDS in the focus countries is a stark indicator of the challenges facing the Emergency Plan. Policies that mandate that only health professionals can provide health services, when trained community health workers could provide components of prevention, care, and … [Read more...] about President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Report on Work Force Capacity and HIV/AIDS
Community Health Workers – A Local Solution to a Global Problem
This paper urges scaling up the communityhealth workforce in the United States to improve health outcomes, reduce health care costs, and create jobs. The most crucial lesson from global CHW programs is that the community rootedness of CHWs should be retained through careful, representative selection and by ensuring that CHWs spend most of their time in the … [Read more...] about Community Health Workers – A Local Solution to a Global Problem
Shared learning in an interconnected world: innovations to advance global health equity
The notion of “reverse innovation”–that some insights from low-income countries might offer transferable lessons for wealthier contexts--is increasingly common in the global health and business strategy literature. Yet the perspectives of researchers and policymakers in settings where these innovations are developed have been largely absent from the discussion to … [Read more...] about Shared learning in an interconnected world: innovations to advance global health equity
Developed-developing country partnerships: Benefits to developed countries?
Developing countries can generate effective solutions for today’s global health challenges. This paper reviews relevant literature to construct the case for international cooperation, and in particular, developed-developing country partnerships. Standard database and web-based searches were conducted for publications in English between 1990 and 2010. Studies containing full or … [Read more...] about Developed-developing country partnerships: Benefits to developed countries?