The Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 is the key guiding document with principles and objectives presented below:
Guiding principles
- Promote the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health;
- Provide integrated, people-centered health services devoid of stigma and discrimination;
- Foster empowered and engaged communities;
- Uphold the personal, employment and professional rights of all health workers, including safe and decent working environments and freedom from all kinds of discrimination, coercion and violence;
- Eliminate gender-based violence, discrimination and harassment;
- Promote international collaboration and solidarity in alignment with national priorities;
- Ensure ethical recruitment practices in conformity with the provisions of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel;
- Mobilize and sustain political and financial commitment and foster inclusiveness and collaboration across sectors and constituencies;
- Promote innovation and the use of evidence.
Health workforce
Health systems can only function with health workers; improving health service coverage and realizing the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is dependent on their availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality.
WHO estimates a projected shortfall of 18 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle income countries. However, countries at all levels of socioeconomic development face, to varying degrees, difficulties in the education, employment, deployment, retention, and performance of their workforce.
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