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Putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in COVID-19 and beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the implications of chronic underinvestment in health workforce development, particularly in resource-constrained health systems. Inadequate health workforce diversity, insufficient training and remuneration, and limited support and protection reduce health system ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062457/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35500937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2021-001449 |
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author | Deussom, Rachel Lal, Arush Frymus, Diana Cole, Kimberly Politico, Mary Ruth S Saldaña, Kelly Vasireddy, Vamsi Khangamwa, Glenda Jaskiewicz, Wanda |
author_facet | Deussom, Rachel Lal, Arush Frymus, Diana Cole, Kimberly Politico, Mary Ruth S Saldaña, Kelly Vasireddy, Vamsi Khangamwa, Glenda Jaskiewicz, Wanda |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the implications of chronic underinvestment in health workforce development, particularly in resource-constrained health systems. Inadequate health workforce diversity, insufficient training and remuneration, and limited support and protection reduce health system capacity to equitably maintain health service delivery while meeting urgent health emergency demands. Applying the Health Worker Life Cycle Approach provides a useful conceptual framework that adapts a health labour market approach to outline key areas and recommendations for health workforce investment—building, managing and optimising—to systematically meet the needs of health workers and the systems they support. It also emphasises the importance of protecting the workforce as a cross-cutting investment, which is especially important in a health crisis like COVID-19. While the global pandemic has spurred intermittent health workforce investments required to immediately respond to COVID-19, applying this ‘lifecycle approach’ to guide policy implementation and financing interventions is critical to centering health workers as stewards of health systems, thus strengthening resilience to public health threats, sustainably responding to community needs and providing more equitable, patient-centred care. |
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spelling | pubmed-90624572022-05-06 Putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in COVID-19 and beyond Deussom, Rachel Lal, Arush Frymus, Diana Cole, Kimberly Politico, Mary Ruth S Saldaña, Kelly Vasireddy, Vamsi Khangamwa, Glenda Jaskiewicz, Wanda Fam Med Community Health Special Communication The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the implications of chronic underinvestment in health workforce development, particularly in resource-constrained health systems. Inadequate health workforce diversity, insufficient training and remuneration, and limited support and protection reduce health system capacity to equitably maintain health service delivery while meeting urgent health emergency demands. Applying the Health Worker Life Cycle Approach provides a useful conceptual framework that adapts a health labour market approach to outline key areas and recommendations for health workforce investment—building, managing and optimising—to systematically meet the needs of health workers and the systems they support. It also emphasises the importance of protecting the workforce as a cross-cutting investment, which is especially important in a health crisis like COVID-19. While the global pandemic has spurred intermittent health workforce investments required to immediately respond to COVID-19, applying this ‘lifecycle approach’ to guide policy implementation and financing interventions is critical to centering health workers as stewards of health systems, thus strengthening resilience to public health threats, sustainably responding to community needs and providing more equitable, patient-centred care. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9062457/ /pubmed/35500937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2021-001449 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Special Communication Deussom, Rachel Lal, Arush Frymus, Diana Cole, Kimberly Politico, Mary Ruth S Saldaña, Kelly Vasireddy, Vamsi Khangamwa, Glenda Jaskiewicz, Wanda Putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in COVID-19 and beyond |
title | Putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in COVID-19 and beyond |
title_full | Putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in COVID-19 and beyond |
title_fullStr | Putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in COVID-19 and beyond |
title_full_unstemmed | Putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in COVID-19 and beyond |
title_short | Putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in COVID-19 and beyond |
title_sort | putting health workers at the centre of health system investments in covid-19 and beyond |
topic | Special Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062457/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35500937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2021-001449 |
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