Human Resources for Health:

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Human Resources for Health A Toolkit for
Planning, Training and Management
World Health Organization March 1999
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Topics in Human resources development
? 150 completed
gt 150 planned
? topics are short (1-5 pages) sections,
summarizing
? principles, concepts
? checklists
? methods their advantages disadvantages
? suggested norms
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Appendices
gt 60 completed
gt 100 more planned
? illustrations of method applications
? illustrative or template materials ...
? survey questionnaires other instruments
? data collection forms table layouts
? task statements, job descriptions, evaluation
forms
? outlines for reports, plans workshop schedules
? training exercises
? typical data and data comparisons
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Guidelines documents (30 - 70 pages each)
? Conducting a National HRH study ? Designing a
HRH Information System ? Planning a HRH Training
Workshop ? Legislation affecting the development
of HRH ? Workload indicators of staffing need ?
Functional job analysis ? Conducting a national
HRH review ? Applying the Right tool to the
problem
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Additional Guidelines Planned
? HRH Policy Analysis Formulation (under
review) ? Creating a HRH Data System (under
review) ? Economic Analysis of HRH (planned) ?
Educational System Planning (planned)
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Additional Specialized Toolkits Planned
? Planning the Nursing Workforce (1999) ?
Planning the Oral Health Workforce (planned) ?
Planning the Allied Health Workforce (planned) ?
Planning the Medical Workforce (planned) ?
Planning the Public Health Workforce (planned)
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Toolkit presentation and planned developments
? Toolkit now provided on 2 compressed diskettes
-- Total pages gt1000 eventually, much
larger -- Keywords facilitate finding
sections topics ? Planned inclusion of complete
HRD manuals ? Late 1999 availability of ToolKit
on CD-ROM ? Late 1999 availability of ToolKit on
WHO website ? Annotated HRH bibliography with
search capability
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Models for Projecting the Health Workforce
HRH model, ver. 3.0 Up to 15 occupations
? Supply one spreadsheet - 30-year projections
at 5-year intervals - 2 methods of projecting
losses
? Requirements one spreadsheet - any duration,
15-30 years recommended - both public private
sectors included - production distribution of
services - economic feasibility test of
scenario - requirements for medical / nursing
specialists
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Models for Projecting the Health Workforce
HRHShort model, ver. 1.0 Up to 20 occupations
? Supply on same spreadsheet as requirements -
30-year projections at 5-year intervals - simple
method of projecting losses
? Requirements - any duration, 5-15 years
recommended - both public private sectors
included - per capita production of services -
economic feasibility test of scenario - 3
alternative methods of projection
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Models for Projecting the Health Workforce
Features of both HRHLong HRHShort
? Detailed online help for all tables ? Many
summary values to help with interpretation ?
Graphic presentations available ? Utility tables
to help with common planning tasks ? Simulated
data set for teaching demonstration ? Written
teaching-learning materials available ? Provided
in a stand-alone runtime module ? Side-by-side
comparisons of alternative simulations ?
Subnational projections can be combined
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Models for Projecting the Health Workforce
Situation in 1999
? Models available in Visual Baler for Windows
? Run-time, stand-alone module can be copied
? Three file-compressed diskettes ? No
capability for modification or translation ?
Models being converted to MS Excel/Windows ?
Widespread availability of MS Excel ? Ability
to translate headings, online help ? Ability
to add, correct, modify spreadsheets ? Ability
to troubleshoot problems
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WHO SUPPLY MODEL
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WHO REQUIREMENTS MODEL
BASELINE DATA - population size - gross domestic
product - expenditure data - workforce supply -
work settings by type - clinical services
produced - workforce incomes
PLANNING ASSUMPTIONS - work settings by
type - average staff norms - average
productivity
PROJECTION OUTPUTS - demographic estimates
- economic estimates - required health workers
by type specialty - scenario
economic feasibility - proportion spent on
personnel - hospital utilization rates -
ambulatory utilization rates - base-target
year comparisons - projection comparisons -
projection aggregations
GROWTH RATE ASSUMPTIONS - population growth
- gross domestic product - public health
sector expenditures - workforce incomes
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WHO Toolkit available from Div. Of Human
Resources Development and Capacity Building World
Health Organization 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
For suggestions contact WHO or Thomas L.
Hall Dept. of Epidemiology Biostatistics Univ.
of California School of Medicine 500 Parnassus,
MU 425W San Francisco, CA 94143-0560 -- USA Fax
415/476-6014 E-mail thall_at_epi.ucsf.edu