The World Health Report 2006 – working together for health
The World Health Report 2006 – Working together for health contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately. The report reveals an estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, midwives, nurses and support workers worldwide. The shortage is most severe in the poorest countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where health workers are most needed. Focusing on all stages of the health workers’ career lifespan from entry to health training, to job recruitment through to retirement, the report lays out a ten-year action plan in which countries can build their health workforces, with the support of global partners.
http://www.who.int/whr/2006/en/
Report by chapter
- Overview
- Chapter 1: Health workers: a global profile
- Chapter 2: Responding to urgent health needs
- Chapter 3: Preparing the health workforce
- Chapter 4: Making the most of existing health workers
- Chapter 5: Managing exits from the workforce
- Chapter 6: Formulating national health workforce strategies
- Chapter 7: Working together, within and across countries
In guidelines on training WHO 2006, it is clearly mentioned that each training has to be evaluated for competency. Even for SOPs, which can be read and understand, competency has to be evaluated by solving questionnaires.passing % has to be set in your Training SOP and retraining has to be done for those who scores below that .Skills assessment is also used for important shop floor and testing activities, and personnel assessed shall be certified to do that particular job.
Smita P.
