Workforce Development for Health EDRM - Resources
WHO Resources:
- Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030 (7 July 2020) https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241511131
- Strengthening national emergency preparedness https://www.who.int/activities/strengthening-national-emergency-preparedness
- Emergency medical teams https://www.who.int/emergencies/partners/emergency-medical-teams
Data on Health Workforce
Effective planning and management of the Health EDRM workforce is dependent on reliable data that is specific to the crisis and capacity of each country. The availability of such data is critical to building a workforce that can respond effectively to health emergencies.
To this end, several databases exist that provide users with health workforce-related data that can inform strategic planning and management. The following is a selection of some of these databases:
- WHO Global Health Workforce statistic database
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3c sets a target to “substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States.”This database allows users to view data on health workforce (based on the updated version of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08)) in the WHO member states. Health workforce indicators includes the number of medical doctors, nursing and midwifery, dentistry, personnel of pharmaceutical, environmental and occupational health and hygiene, medical and pathology laboratory, mental health workers, traditional and complementary medicine, community health workers and others.
- Sustaining human resources is one of the 13 core capacities of the International Health Regulations (IHR) capacities to detect, assess, notify, and report events, and respond to public health risks and emergencies. International Health Regulations (IHR) core capacity index is a States Parties Questionnaire (also referred to as the IHR monitoring questionnaire) is sent annually to National IHR Focal Points (NFPs) for data collection. It contains a checklist of 20 indicators specifically developed for monitoring each core capacity, including its status of implementation.
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)’s Global Humanitarian Operational Presence – Who, What, Where (3W) Portal shows where humanitarian actors are working by sectors and location.
- United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) Health employment data - International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC). The dataset presents latest figures on skilled health occupations and general employment in the human health and social work sector, which includes all those employed in health-related institutions, including non-health occupations such as administrators and cleaners, and social work activities.
- Monitoring Violence against Health Care Workers. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 8-36% of healthcare workers have experienced physical violence in their careers.
