Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health seeks to address the challenges facing healthcare systems and ensure that all people have access to quality health services. The strategy focuses on five key areas: improving access to healthcare, strengthening the health workforce, enhancing health workforce planning, improving health workforce performance, and promoting health workforce equity.
The WHO works to improve access to healthcare by increasing the availability of resources, strengthening health workforce capacity, and improving the quality of health services. The strategy also focuses on increasing the number and quality of health workers, improving health workforce planning, enhancing health workforce performance, and promoting health workforce equity. In doing so, the WHO Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health aims to ensure that all people have access to quality health services.
Action plan: National workforce capacity to implement the essential public health functions including a focus on emergency preparedness and response (2022-2024)
In May 2022, WHO and its partners published the National workforce capacity to implement the essential public health functions including a focus on emergency preparedness and response: a roadmap for aligning WHO and partner contributions, setting out a 5-year vision to strengthen capacity across all WHO Member States for a multidisciplinary workforce to undertake the essential public health functions (EPHFs), including emergency preparedness and response (EPR).
This Action Plan (2022–2024) focuses on the immediate activities and deliverables anticipated in the first 2-year period of the Roadmap, from July 2022 to June 2024, to meet the following targets:
- By the end of June 2023, all tools and guidance are available for country contextualization and endorsed by the participating organizations.
- By the end of June 2024, at least 100 countries have benchmarked themselves on the three action areas and developed action plans for implementation.
WHO/International Council of Nurses (ICN) Framework of Disaster Nursing Competencies (Version 2.0) 2019
Eight domains (as shown in Figure 1) that enable effective nursing practice during any disaster require clinical competency and the application of utilitarian principles. The new Level III competencies align with and build on the WHO Classification and Minimum Standards for Emergency Medical Teams (WHO, 2021).
Figure 1: Framework of Disaster Nursing Competencies (2019)