At the center of every health system are health workers. Their knowledge, skills and motivation play a crucial role in delivering health services to those in need. Throughout the world countries are grappling with enormous human resources for health policy challenges such as how to address shortages or surpluses and how to improve the skills, geographic distribution and performance of health workers. Improving the health workforce situation remains an important pillar of the World Bank's health systems strengthening agenda. This website contains information on human resources for health activities within the World Bank.
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New insights into the provision of health services in Indonesia : a health workforce study Indonesia has made improving the access to health workers, especially in rural areas, and improving the quality of health provider's key priority areas of its next five-year development plan. Significant steps and policy changes were taken to improve the distribution of the health workforce, in particular the contracted doctors program and later the contracted midwives program, but few studies have been undertaken to measure the actual impact of these policies and programs. This book is part of the inputs prepared at the request of the government of Indonesia's national development agency, Bappenas, to inform the development of the next national development plan 2010-14.
Information on human resources for health, organized by region. Also, includes links to projects financed by the World Bank that have human resources for health elements.
Links to sites that contain further information on human resources for health.
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