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Health Policy and Planning Advance Access published online on August 2, 2005
Health Policy and Planning, doi:10.1093/heapol/czi036
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. All rights reserved.

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An approach to estimating human resource requirements to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Norbert Dreesch 1*, Carmen Dolea 1, Mario R Dal Poz 1, Alexandre Goubarev 1, Orvill Adams 1, Maru Aregawi 2, Karin Bergstrom 3, Helga Fogstad 4, Della Sheratt 4, Jennifer Linkins 5, Robert Scherpbier 6, and Mayada Youssef-Fox 7

1 Human Resources for Health, Cluster of Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
2 Roll Back Malaria, Cluster of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
3 Stop TB, Cluster of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
4 Making Pregnancy Safer, Cluster of Family and Community Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
5 Polio Eradication Initiative, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
6 Child and Adolescent Health and Development, Cluster of Family and Community Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
7 HIV/AIDS, Cluster of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Norbert Dreesch, E-mail: dreeschn{at}who.int


  Abstract

In the context of the Millennium Development Goals, human resources represent the most critical constraint in achieving the targets. Therefore, it is important for health planners and decision-makers to identify what are the human resources required to meet those targets. Planning the human resources for health is a complex process. It needs to consider both the technical aspects related to estimating the number, skills and distribution of health personnel for meeting population health needs, and the political implications, values and choices that health policy- and decision-makers need to make within given resources limitations. After presenting an overview of the various methods for planning human resources for health, with their advantages and limitations, this paper proposes a methodological approach to estimating the requirements of human resources to achieve the goals set forth by the Millennium Declaration. The method builds on the service-target approach and functional job analysis.

Keywords: health planning; human resources for health; health interventions; tuberculosis; maternal health; child health; malaria; HIV/AIDS.
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