E-DRUG: Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health - Call for Abstracts
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Dear all,
Please see the announcement below for the first International Health
Workforce Migration Conference. Abstracts must be received by the 22nd of
September 2006. More information is available at:
http://www.hret.org/hret/publications/ihwm.html.
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Tana Wuliji, Pharmacist
Project Coordinator
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
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A Call To Action: Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health
International Health Workforce Migration
International Conference Centre - Geneva, Switzerland
22-23 March 2007
Introduction:
"A clear mandate has emerged for a global plan of action bringing forth
national leadership backed by global solidarity" The World Health Report
2006.
World Health Day on 7 April, 2006 was dedicated to the global health care
workforce shortage. In an effort to support and acknowledge the difficulty
to build sustainable health systems with the instability of reliance on
large scale emigration, the 2007 A Call to Action: Ensuring Global Human
Resources for Health, will aim to address what we have done and what action
steps we can take to solve this critical problem. With a multi-disciplinary
focus, and a convening of global stakeholders, this meeting will stimulate
discussion and spotlight evidence-based, pragmatic approaches to build,
retain and sustain a workforce, both nationally and internationally. Policy
implications will be addressed as well as promising practices for the
hospital, the health care community and society. The meeting will link
research, policy and action for global human resources for health.
Desired Outcomes of Meeting
Identification of a priority action and research agenda
Creation of a global multi-stakeholder network to stimulate action and
bridge the gap between current knowledge, hospitals/health systems
research and policymaking
>Formation of between-nation work groups
>Development of summary report on interdisciplinary best practice
initiatives from the meeting
Call for Abstracts
Deadline submission of abstracts should be by 8 September 2006 by email at
http://www.hret.org/hret/publications/ihwm.html or www.ihf-publications.org
or by fax to: +1 312 422 4568 or +33 (0)450 42 6001.
Scientific & Planning Committee
Themes/Topic Tracks:
I. The Health Worker: a National and Global Profile "WHO estimates there to
be a total of 59.2 million full-time paid health workers worldwide" The
World Health Report 2006
This track will seek to define health care workers in all their diversity,
their environment, their size, distribution, characteristics, their costs
and migration drivers and patterns. Topics will include:
Data collection methods and limitations – Are data sets evidence-
based?
Migrating professionals as agents for exchange of skills/culture, etc.
The voice of the migrant health professional (National migrant
associations)
Current policies and achievements
II. Strategies to Develop, Sustain and Retain an Effective Health Workforce:
Global and National Perspectives “The chasm is widening between what can be
done and what is happening on the ground.” The World Health Report 2006
This track will set the scene with reports by profession, destination/source
country to explore strategies to develop, sustain, and retain
high-performing health workers for health systems. Topics will include:
Reasons for attrition and health worker’s satisfaction
Evidence-based best practices
The role of foreign aid and government
Human Resource Planning – Methods, self-sufficiency
III. Ethical Hiring Practices: A Dialogue Between Nations and Health Worker
Professions “The growing international nature of the health workforce
related to the flows of migrants, relief workers and volunteers calls for
cooperative agreements to protect the rights and safety of workers and to
enhance the adoption of ethical recruitment practices” The World Health
Report 2006
This track will present a dialogue between nations and professions to
analyze current recruitment trends, sustainable solutions and their impact
on the global market. Topics will include, for example: