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Scaling Up and Transforming Health Workforce Education and Training for Improved Health Equity

April 2014 by Rebecca Bailey and Heather Ross
TAGS: Gender, Heather Ross, Preservice Education, Rebecca Bailey

This post was originally published on the Global Health Workforce Alliance Members’ Platform. We encourage you to join and contribute to discussions like this one.

The statistics are startling: today the world is in urgent need of 7.2 million additional doctors, nurses, and midwives, according to the WHO, and by 2035 that number will rise to 12.9 million. Recent estimates show that just under one million doctors, nurses, and midwives graduate each year. At this rate, it would take more than seven years to produce the additional skilled workers currently needed. Yet in seven years, the need for health workers will be much higher. Read more »

Meet Eight Health Workers Who Love Their Jobs

April 2014 by Sarah Dwyer and Carol Bales
TAGS: Carol Bales, Health Workers, Lao PDR, Sarah Dwyer, World Health Worker Week

This post originally appeared on VITAL, the blog of IntraHealth International.

“I love my job!” says one enthusiastic health worker in Laos. And he backs up his statement with a solid reason: “I like to save my patient’s life.”

Kenechanh Chanthapadith relates a typical day on the job, sharing an example about a woman who complained of abdominal pain. “I examined her and I found that she had an ectopic pregnancy,” he says. “I sent her immediately to Mahosot Hospital to get an operation. And she’s alive now!” Read more »

Five Key Steps to Making the Health Workforce a Post-MDG Priority

April 2014 by Pape Gaye
TAGS: Community Health Workers, Health Systems, Health Workers, mHealth, Millennium Development Goals, Pape Gaye, Universal Health Coverage

This post originally appeared on VITAL, the blog of IntraHealth International.

Pape GayeThis is a pivotal year for the international development community.

Fourteen years ago, world leaders gathered at the United Nations headquarters and set eight major goals to reduce extreme poverty and improve lives around the world. Those Millennium Development Goals provided a shared blueprint that unified the global community and accelerated progress like never before. The deadline for the goals is 2015—just around the corner.

The big question now is this: What development goals will we set next? And how can we make even faster progress toward global health and well-being? Read more »

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