PHM-Exch> WHO Bulletin call for papers: health workforce retention in remote and rural areas

[Claudio Schuftan]

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Health workforce retention in remote and rural areas: call for papers
for WHO Bulletin special theme issue
Carmen Dolea, Jean-Marc Braichet & Daniel MP Shaw
WHO Bulletin, July 2009

"Although approximately one half of the global population lives in rural
areas, these people are served by only 38% of the total nursing
workforce and by less than a quarter of the total physicians’ workforce.
At the country level, imbalances in the distribution of health workers
are even more prominent, in both developed and developing countries.
Without local access to well trained and motivated health workers, it is
unlikely that communities will have access to important primary health
care services to respond to priority health needs and to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals....

....In this context, WHO has recently launched a programme of work to
support countries to increase access to health workers in remote and
rural areas through improved retention. The programme consists of three
strategic pillars: building the evidence base; supporting countries to
implement and evaluate effective strategies; and producing
evidence-based recommendations to improve retention of health workers in
remote and rural areas. An important part of this programme is the work
on expanding the knowledge base and the evidence on effective strategies
and policies that countries can use to address the issue of inequitable
distribution of health workers in remote and rural areas...

....authors are invited to submit articles as a contribution to a
special theme issue that will explore the challenges of health worker
retention in remote and rural areas. Papers should aim at filling the
gaps in the current knowledge on costs of implementing rural retention
strategies and incentive schemes, and the extent to which context
influences the design, implementation and the impact of various
strategies. Innovative methodological papers that examine the monitoring
and impact evaluation of various strategies are also encouraged, in
particular with a view to understanding the long-term effects and
sustainability of retention strategies...

Manuscripts on any of the above topics should be submitted to:
http://submit.bwho.org by 1 October 2009."

The special issue will be published in Spring 2010, to coincide with the
launch of WHO Global Recommendations on increasing access to health
workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention.

A copy of the editorial call for papers is attached [*] and can also be
found at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/7/09-068494/en/index.html

For more information please contact: hrhinfo at who.int

Daniel M. P. Shaw
Technical Officer
Health Workforce Retention and Migration (HMR)
Department of Human Resources for Health (HRH)
Health Systems and Services (HSS)
World Health Organization (WHO)
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