CapacityPlus recently announced its first technical brief, Population growth and the global health workforce crisis<http://www.capacityplus.org/files/resources/population-growth-global-health-workforce-crisis.pdf>, by Sara Pacqué-Margolis, Carie Muntifering, Crystal Ng, and Shaun Noronha. This data-rich brief examines the potential impact of population growth on countries' efforts to improve access to health workers, and recommends an approach that will help meet families' health needs while mitigating the health workforce crisis.
In the brief, the authors assert that a country's rate of population growth is the critical variable in health workforce planning. The birth of the world's seven-billionth person on October 31st brought a renewed focus on the implications of the world's rapidly expanding population. Growing populations will require additional health workers to provide the minimum coverage. However, if countries are able to implement policies and programs that result in smaller population growth rates, the authors demonstrate that the total number of health workers needed could be significantly reduced.
The brief is available in English<http://www.capacityplus.org/files/resources/population-growth-global-health-workforce-crisis.pdf> and French<http://www.capacityplus.org/files/resources/croissance-demographique-crise-mondiale-effectifs-sanitaires.pdf>\. To make sharing easy, I've pasted the full links below.
The English version is posted here: http://www.capacityplus.org/files/resources/population-growth-global-health-workforce-crisis.pdf
The French version is here: http://www.capacityplus.org/files/resources/croissance-demographique-crise-mondiale-effectifs-sanitaires.pdf
More detailed information is available in a related news article<http://www.capacityplus.org/technical-brief-population-growth-global-health-workforce-crisis> and blog<http://www.capacityplus.org/seven-billionth-person-global-health-workforce-perspective>\.
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