Thursday, November 6, 2008

[EQ] The looming crisis of the health workforce: How can OECD countries respond?

The looming crisis of the health workforce: How can OECD countries respond?

 

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2008)

 

Website: www.oecd.org/health/workforce.

Introduction: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/25/15/41509236.pdf

Table of content: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/25/14/41509461.pdf

 

 

“…..OECD countries face a challenge in responding to the growing demand for doctors and nurses over the next 20 years. This challenge arises in a world which is already characterised by significant international migration of health workers, both across OECD countries and between some developing countries and the OECD area.

 

What combination of human-resource management policies and migration policies is adopted by OECD countries? How do migration and other health workforce policies interact with each other? How can destination countries build a sustainable health workforce? What are the consequences of emigration of doctors and nurses for origin countries?

 

 Drawing from selected OECD countries' experience, the study also provides for selected countries (Canada, France, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom and

United States) an overview of health workforce policies implemented to build adequate human resources for the provision of health care….”


All case studies are available through these following links:

 

Canada: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/7/59/41590427.pdf

France http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/10/41437407.pdf

Italy http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/10/41431698.pdf

New Zealand http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/41/40673065.pdf

United Kingdom http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/48/2/41500789.pdf

United States (nurses) http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/9/41431864.pdf

United States (doctors) http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/48/1/41500843.pdf

 


WHO-OECD hosted dialogue on migration and other health workforce issues in a global economy


Geneva, 20-21 October 2008

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Development (OECD) collaborated in the organization of the conference, "WHO-OECD Hosted Dialogue on Migration and other Health Workforce issues in a Global Economy".

Objectives:

 

- to identify priority areas for future research at international level;

- to strengthen international collaboration on international health worker migration, including  mechanisms for monitoring flows & stocks of health professional migrants;

- to stimulate actions in participating countries along the lines of the options discussed during the Dialogue.

 

Presentations

Listed according to the agenda.

The EU health professional workforce [pdf 46kb]
Dr Andrzej J. Rys, Director, Public Health and Risk Assessment, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

Human resources for health development and the renewal of primary health care [pdf 152kb]
Dr Manuel M. Dayrit, Director, Department of Human Resources for Health, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.

Introductory remarks: Joint WHO-OECD project "Health workforce and international migration" [pdf 324kb]
Mr Peter Scherer, Head, Health Division, OECD, Paris, France.

Domestic training and international recruitment of health workers [pdf 2.05Mb]
Mr Jean-Christophe Dumont, Principal Administrator, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, Paris, France

Retention of health workers with a focus on rural areas [pdf 323kb]
Dr Pascal Zurn, Health Economist, Human Resources for Health, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.

Management des resources humaines de la santé (in French) [pdf 29kb]
Ms Laurence Codjia, Human Resources for Health Specialist, Dakar, Senegal.

Closing remarks [pdf 423kb]
Dr Kaspar Wyss, Project Leader SPMU, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland.

Retaining the health workforce: challenges for low income countries [pdf 233kb]
Mr Peter Scherer, Head, Health Division, OECD, Paris, France.

Costs of eliminating critical shortages in human resources for health [pdf 118kb]
Dr Tessa Tan Torres-Edejer, Coordinator CEP, Health Systems Financing, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.

Financing and managing the health workforce in the public sector [pdf 368kb]
Mr Marko Vujicic, Health Economist, Human Development Network and Ms Susan Sparkes, Junior Professional Associate, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Malawi's emergency human resources programme - an overview [pdf 194kb]
Mr Matt Gordon, (Former) Health and HIV/AIDS Adviser DFID Malawi, Department for International Development, London, United Kingdom

 

 

 

 

 

 

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