Managing a Health Workforce Crisis: Lessons from the Global Context

Carol Bales — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:53:21 +0000

“Happy families are all alike,” goes the famous opener to Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. But are countries with a critical shortage of health workers all alike, in terms of their health outcomes?

While in Nairobi for Kenya’s first national conference on human resources for health, I talked about how we tend to lump the so-called “health workforce crisis” countries together and assume that their health worker shortages correspond to similarly poor health outcomes.

As it turns out, some countries have managed their health workforce shortage more effectively than others.

Author's name:

Maurice Middleberg

Publication Date:

December 2011

Allied Health Workers

Managing a Health Workforce Crisis: Lessons from the Global Context