Addressing the health workforce crisis: towards a common approach

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Editorial

Addressing the health workforce crisis: towards a common approach

Mario R Dal Poz¹^,2 , Estelle E Quain³ , Mary O'Neil⁴ , Jim McCaffery⁵ , Gijs Elzinga⁶ and Tim Martineau⁷

¹Editor-in-Chief, Human Resources for Health online journal

²Department of Human Resources for Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

³Office of HIV/AIDS, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA

⁴Management Sciences for Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

⁵Capacity Project, Intrahealth, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

⁶National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

⁷Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

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Human Resources for Health 2006, 4:21doi:10.1186/1478-4491-4-21


Published:	3 August 2006

Abstract

The challenges in the health workforce are well known and clearly documented. What is not so clearly understood is how to address these issues in a comprehensive and integrated manner that will lead to solutions. This editorial presents – and invites comments on – a technical framework intended to raise awareness among donors and multisector organizations outside ministries of health and to guide planning and strategy development at the country level.