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Resource centre

World health report 2006 documents

:: The world health report 2006 - working together for health
WHO's leading document on the global health workforce.

:: Background and follow-up papers

:: Policy briefs (in five languages)

Documents and reports on human resources for health

:: Policy

:: Planning

:: Education and training

:: Regulation and accreditation

:: Management

:: Migration and retention

:: Human resources for health and service delivery/priority programme

Journals

:: Human Resouces for Health Journal
An open access, peer-reviewed, online journal covering all aspects of planning, producing and managing the health workforce.

:: Human Resources Development Journal
An independent journal on research in health manpower development (published 1997-2001).

Other resources

:: Gender Analysis of Human Resources for Health - Review paper prepared for the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health [pdf 308kb]

:: African Health Monitor: Crisis in human resources for health in the African Region

:: Canadian Institute for Health Information

:: Eldis dossier on human resources for health

:: EQUINET

:: The Health workforce in Africa - challenges and prospects [pdf 982kb]

:: HRH Global Resource Center - The Capacity Project

:: HRH for Africa - An electronic resource centre for human resources in Africa

:: The Joint Learning Initiative (JLI) Strategy report: human resources for health - overcoming the crisis [pdf 7.19Mb]

:: Observatory eye - A quarterly bulletin of the National Human Resources for Health Observatory, Sudan [pdf 1.74Mb]

:: The World Bank - Human resources

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