Strengthening national and subnational departments for human resources development.

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...

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Corporate Author: World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cairo, Egypt : World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, ©2008.
Series:Health workforce development series ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.