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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><b><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" color="#800000" size="2">Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers</font></span></b></div>
<p align="left"><b><span lang="en-gb"><i><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">Joint call for papers for special issue of the journals:</font></i></span></b></p><span lang="en-gb">
<p align="left"><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb"><i>American Journal of Public Health</i> (</span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ajph.org/" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.ajph.org</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><font color="#000080">
<font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-us">) </span><br><i><span lang="en-gb">Archives of Iranian Medicine</span><span lang="en-gb"></span></i><span lang="en-gb"> (</span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ams.ac.ir/AIM/index.html" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">http://www.ams.ac.ir/AIM/index.html</font></u></span></a><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">) </span><br><span lang="en-gb">
<i>Croatian Medical Journal</i> (</span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cmj.hr/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">
<u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.cmj.hr</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-us">
) </span><br><i><span lang="en-gb">Education for Health</span><span lang="en-gb"></span></i><span lang="en-gb"> (</span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.educationforhealth.net/" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.educationforhealth.net</font></u></span></a><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">) </span><br><span lang="en-gb">
<i>International Nursing Review</i> (</span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/inr" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us">
</span><span lang="en-us"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.blackwellpublishing.com/inr</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><font color="#000080">
<font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-us">) </span><br><i><span lang="en-gb">Leadership in Health Services</span><span lang="en-gb"></span></i><span lang="en-gb"> (</span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/211" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/211</font></u></span></a><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">) </span><br>
<i><span lang="es">Revista Brazileira de Educação Médica</span><span lang="es"></span></i><span lang="es"> (</span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.educacaomedica.org.br.htm/" target="_blank">
<span lang="es"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.educacaomedica.org.br.htm</font></u></span></a><span lang="es"></span><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">) </span>
<br><span lang="en-gb"><i>New Zealand Medical Journal</i> (</span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.nzma.org.nz/journal</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><font color="#000080">
<font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-us">) </span><br><i><span lang="en-gb">Nursing Ethics</span><span lang="en-gb"></span></i><span lang="en-gb"> (</span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sagepub.co.uk/" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.sagepub.co.uk</font></u></span></a><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">) </span><br><span lang="en-gb"><i>Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing
</i>(</span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.uff.br/objnursing" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">
www.uff.br/objnursing</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-us">) </span><br><i><span lang="en-gb">
Open Medicine</span><span lang="en-gb"></span></i><span lang="en-gb"> (</span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.openmedicine.ca/" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.openmedicine.ca</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><font color="#000080">
<font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-us">)</span><span lang="en-us"> </span><br><i><span lang="en-gb">Papua New Guinea Medical Journal</span><span lang="en-gb"></span></i><span lang="en-gb"> (</span></font></font>
</font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.pngimr.org.pg/medicaljournals.htm" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">http://www.pngimr.org.pg/medicaljournals.htm
</font></u></span></a><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">) </span><br><i><span lang="es">PLoS Medicine</span></i><span> (<i></i></span><i><span lang="en-gb"></span></i></font></font>
</font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/" target="_blank"><i><span lang="en-gb"><u></u></span></i><span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">
www.plosmedicine.org</font></u></span><i><span lang="en-gb"></span></i></a><i><span lang="en-gb"></span></i><span lang="es"></span><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">)</span> <br><span lang="en-gb">
<i>Progress in Community Health Partnerships</i> (</span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/progress_in_community_health_partnerships" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">pchp.press.jhu.edu</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><font color="#000080">
<font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-us">)</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><i> </i></span><br><i><span lang="en-gb">Public Health</span><span lang="en-gb"></span></i><span lang="en-gb"> (</span>
</font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/pubh/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">http://intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/pubh/
</font></u></span></a><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">) </span><br><span lang="en-gb"><i>South African Medical Journal</i> (</span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.journals.co.za/sama/m_samj.html" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">www.journals.co.za/sama/m_samj.html</font></u></span></a><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><font size="1"><span lang="en-gb">) </span><br><span lang="en-gb">
<i>Sudanese Journal of Public Health</i> (</span></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sjph.net.sd/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">
http://www.sjph.net.sd</font></u></span></a><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">) </font></span></p></span>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-gb"><i>Human Resources for Health Journal: </i></span></b></font></font></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.human-resources-health.com/" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">www.human-resources-health.com</font></u></span></a></p><span lang="en-gb">
<p><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial" size="2">WHO<i> Human Resources for Health</i> are leading an international joint special issue which is now accepting papers addressing the critical need for a skilled, sustainable health workforce in the developing world. Submitted articles must fall under the broad theme:
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<p><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial" size="2">The World Health Report 2006,<i> Working together for health</i>, recognized the centrality of the health workforce for the effective operation of country health systems and outlined proposals to tackle a global shortage of
4.3 million health workers. There is increasing evidence that that this shortage is interfering with efforts to achieve international development goals, including those contained in the Millenium Declaration and those of WHO's priority programmes.
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<p><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">The health workforce crisis in developing countries derives principally from inadequate educational opportunities for health workers and a lack of relevance of their training to community health care practice. Additional contributing factors include: inadequate compensation and working conditions, the deteriorating health of the workforce in many developing countries, urban/rural and workforce imbalance, and migration of the workforce from developing to developed countries.
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<p><span lang="en-gb"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">We are seeking manuscripts which concern the scaling-up of training and education for health workers. Possible sub-themes include, but are not limited to:
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<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">private sector engagement</span> </font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">regulatory frameworks for education and practice</span> </font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">labour market dynamics after the production of health workers (e.g. retention)</span> </font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">training teams rather than individuals</span> </font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">skills mix</span> </font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">multi-skilled workers, responsive to exiting needs</span> </font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">task-shifting / role substitution</span> </font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">competency-based education and training</span> <br></font></font></font></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></ul></ul>
<p><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb"><b>Examples of questions that could be considered are:</b></span> </font></font></font>
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<li><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">What ongoing efforts to increase graduate level primary care training have been established in developing countries. What has been their impact and what have been their problems?
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<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">What effective strategies have been developed and tested for customizing the workforce skill mix to local health service needs? For example, what impact have recent health sector reforms had on the local health workforce?
</span></font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">What is the status of existing efforts to train health workers using innovative methods, including distance learning and various forms of information technology? How will training by protocol differ from, and complement, traditional community health worker training?
</span></font></font></font>
<li><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">How can the health professional training be better aligned with local health needs and be more socially accountable? </font></span>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">What is the status of existing collaborations between developing countries aiming to improve health worker education?</span> </font></font></font>
<li><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">How have modifications in healthcare management had an impact upon health workforce capacity at the local level?</span> <br></font></font></font>
</li></li></li></li></li></li></ul></ul>
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<p><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">Papers will be accepted in two formats:</span> </font></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-gb">Full papers of 3000 words or less for policy and research papers</span> <br><span lang="en-gb">Brief communications of less than 1200 words: better suited to program or project descriptions or commentaries.
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<p><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">Planned publication will be for a period of several months, starting from June 2008. There will be an online facility to respond to published articles in order to accommodate a live debate.
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<p><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><b>If you would like to submit either an article or brief</b>,<b> please send us a</b><b> provisional title and a short outline of the major topics you would address.
</b></font></font></font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><b>Proposals for manuscripts are due by 15 September 2007 and should be submitted by e-mail to</b> </font></font></font></span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:hrhspecial@who.int" target="_blank">
<span lang="en-gb"><u><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">hrhspecial@who.int</font></u></span></a><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000080"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><b>. Instructions for submission of articles will then be provided with feedback. Final manuscripts are due by 30 November 2007.
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<p><span lang="en-gb"><font face="@Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><span lang="en-gb"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000080">Daniel M. P. Shaw</font></b></span><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"> <span lang="en-gb">Managing Editor, Human Resources for Health online Journal
</span></font></font><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"><br><span lang="en-gb">Department of Human Resources for Health (HRH)</span></font></font><font color="#000080"><font face="Arial"> - <span lang="en-gb">Health Systems and Services (HSS)
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