Follow-up on commitments at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health: Indonesia, Sudan, Tanzania

Human Resources for Health

Case Study

Giorgio Cometto¹  Gilles Dussault²  Martin Mapunda³  Kirana Pritasari⁴  Achmad Soebagja Tancarino Mars⁴  Elsheikh Badr⁵  Hartiah Haroen⁶ 

[1] Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland;Global Health and Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Center on Health Workforce Policy and Planning, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal;Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania;Ministry of Health, Jakarta, Indonesia;Sudan Medical Specialization Board, Khartoum, Sudan;WHO-Indonesia country office, Jakarta, Indonesia;

关键词: Health workforce commitments;    Health workforce policies;    Policy analysis;    Indonesia;    Sudan;    Tanzania;    Third Global Forum;    Monitoring;    Evaluation;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12960-016-0112-0

 received in 2015-06-16, accepted in 2016-04-18,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

This study sought to assess actions which Indonesia, Sudan, and Tanzania took to implement the health workforce commitments they made at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health (HRH) in November 2013. The study was conducted through a survey of published and gray literature in English and field research consisting of direct contacts with relevant ministries and agencies. Results show that the three countries implemented interventions to translate their commitments into actions. The three countries focused their commitments on improving the availability, geographical accessibility, quality of education, and performance of health workers. The implementation of the Recife commitments primarily entailed initiatives at the central level, such as the adoption of new legislation or the development of accreditation mechanisms. This study shows that action is more likely to take place when policy documents explicitly recognize and document HRH problems, when stakeholders are involved in the formulation and the implementation of policy changes, and when external support is available. The Recife Forum appears to have created an opportunity to advance the HRH policy agenda, and advocates of health workforce development in these three countries took advantage of it.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Dussault et al. 2016