We present here the basic points of the draft submitted for discussion at the last Assembly of the World Health Organization June 2016.
The document is addressed to all partners and also industry stakeholders, including multilateral development public and private companies, professional associations, higher education and vocational training, trade unions, bilateral partners and the international organizations and civil society.
We briefly outline the main points:
General Objective: To ensure the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of health personnel through adequate investment and the implementation of effective policies at national, regional and global levels, in order to provide a healthy life for people of all ages and promote equitable socio-economic development by providing decent employment opportunities.
The principles: Help governments to establish optimal models for health personnel in order to provide and focused on the person responding to the sociocultural patient expectations about integrated health services, and to strengthen the capacity commitment and active participation of the population in the production process of health care.
Guarantee the right of health workers from discrimination on grounds of sex and violence in the workplace and decent work for all.
Fostering the integration of social and health services by adopting a holistic approach focused on the needs of the population.
Promote international collaboration and solidarity based on common interest and shared responsibility, and ensure that recruitment is carried out in accordance with ethical principles.
Raise political commitment and encourage collaboration between different groups and sectors, both public and private, to ensure the effectiveness of measures taken in the area of the RHS.
Ensure that support WHO normative and technical cooperation issues uniform and integrated into all organizational levels
The document submitted for consideration considers human resources as a cross-cutting element that facilitates the provision of numerous priority services, and complements and reinforces a number of related strategies developed by WHO and the United Nations, especially reaffirms the importance of the Global Code of Practice WHO on international recruitment of health personnel and advocates and focused the objectives and principles of the global strategy of the United Nations women’s health, child and adolescent, the global WHO strategy on integrated health services in the person, the action plan for all newborns, family planning goals by 2020, the global plan to eliminate HIV infections in children, the UNAIDS new strategy for the period 2016-2021 and the plan global action for the prevention and control of non-contagious diseases, among other initiatives.
This cross Strategy is the main way that will achieve the goals for coverage for all priority services, and concerns not only doctors, nurses and midwives, but all health personnel, including the public health workers, family doctors intermediate, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, responsible for supply chain, physiotherapists, dentists and oral health professionals, and paramedical and support staff. The strategy also concerns the staff of social services in general, to the extent that greater integration of health personnel and social services can also improve ongoing care to an increasingly aging population.
In the Global Strategy for human resources for health, various policy options were proposed for Member States of WHO. Responsibilities of the WHO Secretariat were established and recommendations for other interested parties on how to achieve the following objectives were formulated in order to achieve the following goals:
- to optimize existing staff to expedite the achievement of universal health coverage and sustainable development goals.
2 ) to understand the future needs of health systems and prepare for them, taking advantage of the growth of labor markets in the sector to increase job creation and economic growth.
3) to strengthen the institutional capacity to implement the Strategy);
4) to collect more data on the RHS to improve monitoring and transparency of the successful implementation of national strategies and the Global Strategy itself.
In conclusion: training and information seem to be the keywords in this project.
