Global Health Nursing & Midwifery
HRH databases
Started by Elizabeth Glaser on 07 Sep 2009
Having been trying to find data to evaluate the impact of health care workforce policies on health systems strengthening in PEPFAR funded countries.
Would prefer to focus specifically on nursing but the broader focus may yield more information.
To date, I cannot find a report/article reviewing the effectiveness of country initiatives implemented over the last five years program by program in order to assess the overall impact since the WHO 2002 report on Nursing and Midwifery 2002-2008.
The WHO database with aggregate and dis-aggregate data on the health care workforce by country has many many gaps, making it difficult to use as a tool to assist in policy evaluation. South Africa has a health care worker HRH database that I am now checking out but I was wondering if anyone could suggest some reasonably complete regional databases for the past five years on human resources for health at least for sub-saharan Africa.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Glaser
Donna Barry
Hi - this response came from a colleague at PHR. Thanks - donna
I’m not aware of any such database, unfortunately. I just use WHO, though information is generally at least several years out of date.
GHWA is in the process of developing a database of the 57 countries that WHO identified as having critical HRH shortages (and ultimately perhaps additional countries, and in time, comprehensive country profiles). These country database will include HCW data and some other basic HCW information. Hopefully this will be more up-to-date than what is now in WHO database. This should be on the GHWA website (www.ghwa.org) later this year.
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