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Author: World Health Organization (WHO)

Date of publication: 2010

Summary: A technical meeting on strengthening health workforce information systems was held on 10–12 March 2010 in Montreux, Switzerland. The meeting was jointly convened by the World Health Organization’s Department of Human Resources for Health, the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the Health Metrics Network, who have called for the establishment of a Health Workforce Information Reference Group (HIRG). The aim of this first meeting of HIRG members and stakeholders was to initiate discussion on how to promote a coordinated, harmonized and standardized approach to strengthening country health workforce information and monitoring systems to support policy, planning and research.

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Author: World Health Organization (WHO)

Date of publication: May 2010

Summary: Stressing that the World Health Organization, Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.

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

Date of publication: March 2010

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

Date of publication: March 2010

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

Date of publication: March 2010

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Author: Norwegian Directorate of Health. Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services

Date of publication: May 2009

Summary: The present report, “Migration and health” is the most recent in a series of reports on challenges and trends in the health sector from the Directorate of Health.

With this series, the Directorate aims to provide new insights into the health and care domain in order thereby to drive improvements and changes where they are needed. Part of our remit is to monitor developments in the Norwegian health service from a general societal perspective. This also enables us to identify challenges and the need for innovation and reform in our own domain and those of other authorities.

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Author: Cameron Health Strategies Group Limited

Date of publication: March 2009

Summary: With health human resources representing over seventy percent of the health care budget, people remain the greatest asset and the greatest cost of the health care system. The objective of health human resources planning is to equip governments with the information and tools they require to determine how many health professionals are needed to meet the needs of Canadians, both now and in the future. In view of the growing demand for health care services and the expected shortages for health human resources in the near future, it remains critically important that a coordinated, balanced, pan-Canadian health human resources investment strategy be developed and implemented. Its primary aim would be to achieve a stable and optimal health workforce through a cost-effective managed growth strategy.

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Author: Groupe Intersol Group

Date of publication: March 2009

Summary:On March 24th and 25th, 2009, a Health and Human Resource (HHR) Modeling Workshop was held in Vancouver, British Columbia to review HHR planning projects and successes, identify priority evidence and related gaps and challenges, and propose and prioritize realistic, actionable solutions to these gaps and challenges. This event was co-hosted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the HHR Planning Subcommittee of the F/P/T Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources (ACHDHR), with the aim of furthering collaborative efforts to find solutions to the HHR challenge facing Canada today.

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Author: UNESCO

Date of publication: January 2008

Summary: Education quality at all levels is a key to poverty reduction and economic growth. Stakeholders frequently lack reliable information about the quality of the education being provided. Governments wish to assure stakeholders that students are receiving a minimum standard of quality. The heterogeneity of higher education makes it more difficult to assess, monitor, and develop strategies for quality improvements than at lower levels of education.

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Author: UNESCO

Date of publication: 2007

Summary: The present publication is a revised and updated version of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation: Glossary of Basic Terms and Definitions which was published in 2004. The initiative to produce such a glossary was undertaken in the context of the Invitational Roundtable on “Indicators for Institutional and Programme Accreditation in Higher Education/Tertiary Education” (3‐8 April 2003, Bucharest), that was organized in the framework of the UNESCO / CEPES project “Strategic Indicators for Higher Education in the Twenty‐First Century.”1 The need to improve the quantitative assessment of higher education at system and institutional levels, the main objective of the project, has been complemented by this effort to compile in a succinct and easily accessible format main terms and definitions in the areas of quality assurance and accreditation in higher education.