Health Labor Market Analyses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : An Evidence-Based Approach
This book, produced jointly by the World Bank, the University of California, Berkeley, and the WHO, aims to provide decision-makers at sub-national, national, regional and global levels with additional insights into how to address their workforce challenges rather than describe them. In order to opt...
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okr-10986-251372021-04-23T14:04:29Z Health Labor Market Analyses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : An Evidence-Based Approach Scheffler, Richard M. Herbst, Christopher H. Lemiere, Christophe Campbell, Jim Scheffler, Richard M. Herbst, Christopher H. Lemiere, Christophe Campbell, Jim Araújo, Edson C. Bruckner, Tim Damascène Butera, Jean Cohen, Robert El Maghraby, Atef Jaskiewicz, Wanda Keuffel, Eric Leonard, Kenneth Lievens, Tomas Liu, Lenny Mæstad, Ottar Menkulasi, Genta Ozden, Caglar Phillips, David Preker, Alex S. Scott, Anthony Serneels, Pieter Soucat, Agnes Spetz, Joanne Tulenko, Kate Zolia, Yah M. HEALTH WORKFORCE HEALTH WORKERS HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH HEALTH LABOR MARKETS LABOR MARKET ECONOMICS UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE HEALTH SYSTEMS HEALTH NUTRITION AND POPULATION BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS GLOBAL STRATEGY ON HRH ECONOMICS This book, produced jointly by the World Bank, the University of California, Berkeley, and the WHO, aims to provide decision-makers at sub-national, national, regional and global levels with additional insights into how to address their workforce challenges rather than describe them. In order to optimize and align HRH investments and develop targeted policy responses, a thorough understanding of unique, country-specific labor market dynamics and determinants of these dynamics is critical. Policies need to take into account the fact that workers are economic actors, responsive to different levels of compensation and opportunities to generate revenue found in different sub-labor markets. Policies need to take into account the behavioral characteristics of the individuals who provide health care, but also the individuals who consume health care services and the institutions that employ health personnel. In other words, it is necessary to understand the determinants of both the supply (numbers of health workers willing to work in the health sector) and the demand for health workers (resources available to hire health workers), how these interact, and how this interaction varies in different contexts. This interaction will determine the availability of health personnel, their distribution as well as their performance levels, thus ensuring stronger health systems capable to deliver universal health coverage. The book is structured to be of use to researchers, planners, and economists who are tasked with analyzing key areas of health labor markets, including overall labor market assessments as well as and more narrow and targeted analyses of demand and supply (including production and migration), performance, and remuneration of health workers. The chapters, written by a number of internationally renowned experts on Human Resources for Health, discuss data sources and empirical tools that can be used to assess health labor markets across high-, middle- or low-income countries, but draws primarily from examples and case-studies in LMICs. 2016-10-12T14:34:08Z 2016-10-12T14:34:08Z 2016-10-12 Book 978-1-4648-0931-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25137 English en_US Directions in Development--Human Development; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication |
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HEALTH WORKFORCE HEALTH WORKERS HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH HEALTH LABOR MARKETS LABOR MARKET ECONOMICS UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE HEALTH SYSTEMS HEALTH NUTRITION AND POPULATION BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS GLOBAL STRATEGY ON HRH ECONOMICS |
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HEALTH WORKFORCE HEALTH WORKERS HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH HEALTH LABOR MARKETS LABOR MARKET ECONOMICS UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE HEALTH SYSTEMS HEALTH NUTRITION AND POPULATION BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS GLOBAL STRATEGY ON HRH ECONOMICS Scheffler, Richard M. Herbst, Christopher H. Lemiere, Christophe Campbell, Jim Health Labor Market Analyses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : An Evidence-Based Approach |
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This book, produced jointly by the World Bank, the University of California, Berkeley, and the WHO, aims to provide decision-makers at sub-national, national, regional and global levels with additional insights into how to address their workforce challenges rather than describe them. In order to optimize and align HRH investments and develop targeted policy responses, a thorough understanding of unique, country-specific labor market dynamics and determinants of these dynamics is critical. Policies need to take into account the fact that workers are economic actors, responsive to different levels of compensation and opportunities to generate revenue found in different sub-labor markets. Policies need to take into account the behavioral characteristics of the individuals who provide health care, but also the individuals who consume health care services and the institutions that employ health personnel. In other words, it is necessary to understand the determinants of both the supply (numbers of health workers willing to work in the health sector) and the demand for health workers (resources available to hire health workers), how these interact, and how this interaction varies in different contexts. This interaction will determine the availability of health personnel, their distribution as well as their performance levels, thus ensuring stronger health systems capable to deliver universal health coverage.
The book is structured to be of use to researchers, planners, and economists who are tasked with analyzing key areas of health labor markets, including overall labor market assessments as well as and more narrow and targeted analyses of demand and supply (including production and migration), performance, and remuneration of health workers. The chapters, written by a number of internationally renowned experts on Human Resources for Health, discuss data sources and empirical tools that can be used to assess health labor markets across high-, middle- or low-income countries, but draws primarily from examples and case-studies in LMICs. |
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Health Labor Market Analyses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : An Evidence-Based Approach |
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Health Labor Market Analyses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : An Evidence-Based Approach |
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health labor market analyses in low- and middle-income countries : an evidence-based approach |
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