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Technical Briefs

Workforce Planning for the Health Sector

Examines the need for workforce planning, reviews basic concepts and practical issues, and summarizes key steps for developing a workforce plan.

TAGS: Planning

Task Shifting for a Strategic Skill Mix

Based on a review of the literature and country examples, the brief describes why task shifting is important and highlights some key steps in planning for, developing and supporting cadres involved in task shifting.

Using Collaborative Approaches to Reach Human Resources for Health (HRH) Goals

Offers best practices and lessons learned from a combination of key themes in current literature and practice regarding the benefits of collaborative ventures.

Building Stronger Human Resources for Health through Licensure, Certification and Accreditation

Highlights health care regulation, quality assurance in human resources for health, licensure and registration, accreditation and credentialing mechanisms.

Human Resources Management (HRM) in the Health Sector

Describes the HRM context, best practices, HRM’s role in the health sector and improving HRM technical assistance for the health sector.

Retention of Health Care Workers in Low-Resource Settings: Challenges and Responses

Guides readers through the problem of low retention, the causes of turnover, actions to address turnover, managing migration and approaches to retention.