TY - JOUR
T1 - Human resources for health
T2 - Overcoming the crisis
AU - Chen, Lincoln
AU - Evans, Timothy
AU - Anand, Sudhir
AU - Ivey Boufford, Jo
AU - Brown, Hilary
AU - Chowdhury, Mushtaque
AU - Cueto, Marcos
AU - Dare, Lola
AU - Dussault, Gilles
AU - Elzinga, Gijs
AU - Fee, Elizabeth
AU - Habte, Demissie
AU - Hanvoravongchai, Piya
AU - Jacobs, Marian
AU - Kurowski, Christoph
AU - Michael, Sarah
AU - Pablos-Mendez, Ariel
AU - Sewankambo, Nelson
AU - Solimano, Giorgio
AU - Stilwell, Barbara
AU - Waal, Alex De
AU - Wibulpolprasert, Suwit
N1 - Funding Information:
The full JLI report, from which this article is drawn, is available from Harvard University Press. The JLI thanks the Rockefeller Foundation, the Swedish Sida, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, and WHO for generous support. The funding sources had no role in this report.
PY - 2004/11/27
Y1 - 2004/11/27
N2 - In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative - a consortium of more than 100 health leaders - proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries. Nearly all countries are challenged by worker shortage, skill mix imbalance, maldistribution, negative work environment, and weak knowledge base. Especially in the poorest countries, the workforce is under assault by HIV/AIDS, out-migration, and inadequate investment. Effective country strategies should be backed by international reinforcement. Ultimately, the crisis in human resources is a shared problem requiring shared responsibility for cooperative action. Alliances for action are recommended to strengthen the performance of all existing actors while expanding space and energy for fresh actors.
AB - In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative - a consortium of more than 100 health leaders - proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries. Nearly all countries are challenged by worker shortage, skill mix imbalance, maldistribution, negative work environment, and weak knowledge base. Especially in the poorest countries, the workforce is under assault by HIV/AIDS, out-migration, and inadequate investment. Effective country strategies should be backed by international reinforcement. Ultimately, the crisis in human resources is a shared problem requiring shared responsibility for cooperative action. Alliances for action are recommended to strengthen the performance of all existing actors while expanding space and energy for fresh actors.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17482-5
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17482-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 15567015
AN - SCOPUS:9644259184
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 364
SP - 1984
EP - 1990
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
IS - 9449
ER -