Health worker shortages in developing countries
Global forum calls for urgent action to resolve health worker crisis
- WHO March 2008
“The global shortage of health
workers and its impact”, Fact sheet No. 302, April 2006.
“Migration of health workers” World
Health Organization, Fact sheet No. 301, April 2006.
“Missing in Action: Teacher and
Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries”, Journal of Economic Perspectives,
Spring 2006
“Cost Estimates: Doubling the Health
Workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2010” Physicians for Human Rights, June 17, 2005
Task shifting
Global Recommendations and Guidelines
on Task Shifting
“Task shifting to tackle health
worker shortages” WHO/HSS 2007.03
HRH Resource Center on task shifting
ICT, telecommunications and eHealth in developing countries
ICT in developing countries - Parliamentary
Office of Science and Technology
eHealth in Developing Countries:
a framework. Prof Peter Drury, University of Plymouth, 2006
Crisp report says eHealth needed
in developing world, Feb 2007
Global Health Partnerships report
Information technology - Advancing
Global Health, by the CTO of Microsoft