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Chapter 20 - Developing a Balanced Health Workforce

Understanding the Health Labor Market Dynamics

from Section 2 - Transforming Health Systems: Confronting Challenges, Seizing Opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2022

By
F. Gulin Gedik  and
Mario Dal Poz
Edited by
Sameen Siddiqi ,
Awad Mataria ,
Katherine D. Rouleau  and
Meesha Iqbal
Sameen Siddiqi
Affiliation:
Aga Khan University
Awad Mataria
Affiliation:
World Health Organization, Egypt
Katherine D. Rouleau
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Meesha Iqbal
Affiliation:
UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston
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Summary

There is a growing recognition that the increased demand for health services brought about by population growth, aging, and economic development is putting greater emphasis on how countries train, recruit, deploy, retain, and manage their health workforce. This has resulted in an unprecedented and much-needed focus on health workforce policy, planning, production, deployment, and ongoing professional development, while taking labour market factors into account. Low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs) must develop effective strategies to optimize health workforce supply while also supporting recruitment, deployment, retention, and performance in order to address their health workforce challenges. The challenge ahead is to decide on what to do and, more importantly, how to do it. This Chapter focuses on the use of labour market dynamics concepts and frameworks in developing policies and strategies to address the current workforce challenges in L&MICs.

Keywords

Health workforceHealth workforce developmentHuman resources for health planningHuman resources for health managementHealth labour marketHealth workforce regulationHealth workforce governanceHealth workforce informationL&MIC
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Making Health Systems Work in Low and Middle Income Countries
Textbook for Public Health Practitioners
 , pp. 306 - 319
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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