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Human Resources for Health in the Caribbean. A Review of the Workforce Situation and the National Baselines of the 20 Goals for Human Resources for Health

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Author: Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Date of publication: 2011

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Core Data. Human Resources for Health. Stocks and Flows - Education - Management. Montserrat 2011

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Author: Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Date of publication: August 2011

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Baseline Indicators. 20 Goals for a Decade in HRH. Barbados 2011

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Author: Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Date of publication: August 2011

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Core Data. Human Resources for Health. Stocks and Flows - Education - Management. Anguilla 2011

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Author: Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Date of publication: August 2011

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Needs-Based Planning for Jamaica’s Human Resources in Health. Final Report to the Jamaica Ministry of Health

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Author: Ministry of Health

Date of publication: July 2011

Summary: Following the Toronto Call for Action, a partnership was developed between representatives of the Jamaica Ministry of Health and a research team from the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre in Workforce Planning and Research at Dalhousie University in Canada that aimed to build capacity for needs-based Human Resources for Health (HRH) planning in Jamaica while informing HRH planning in Canada through knowledge exchange between both countries. Supported by Jamaica’s Ministry of Health (MOH) as well as Health Canada and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), work on the project began in late 2007. The project is guided by a steering committee of key stakeholders in HRH from across Jamaica.

Core Data. Human Resources for Health. Stocks and Flows - Education - Management. Jamaica 2009

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Author: Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Date of publication: July 2011

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Handbook for Measurement and Monitoring. Indicators of the Regional Goals for Human Resources for Health. A Shared Comittment

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Author: Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Date of publication: May 2011

Summary: The purpose of the handbook is to provide a standardized reference document for countries of the Region that clarifi es the terms and parameters of each of the twenty goals of PAHO’s Resolution CSP27/10, “Regional Goals for Human Resources for Health (HRH) 2007-2015,” in order that they may be consistently understood, applied, measured and monitored.

Monitoring the building blocks of health systems: a handbook of indicators and their measurement strategies

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Author: World Health Organization (WHO)

Date of publication: October 2010

Summary: Increased attention to the strengthening of health systems would not be sustainable in the absence of a sound monitoring strategy that enables decision-makers to accurately track health progress and performance, evaluate impact, and ensure accountability at country and global levels. This handbook describes a set of indicators and related measurement strategies, structured around the WHO framework that describes health systems in terms of six “building blocks”: service delivery, health workforce, information, medicines, financing and governance.

Models and tools for health workforce planning and projections

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Author: World Health Organization (WHO)

Date of publication: 2010

Summary: The objective of this paper is to take stock of the available methods and tools for health workforce planning and projections, and to describe the processes and resources needed to undertake such an exercise. Including this introduction, the paper is divided into four sections. In the next section, an overview of workforce projection models and their applications is presented. Then the operationalization of selected models is described in some detail. Lastly, the pathways by which projection results can be optimized to inform decision-making for policies and programmes are discussed.

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