Health Workforce Planning Resources

Workforce Planning for the Health Sector

Technical brief on health workforce planning by the Capacity Project.

Human Resource for Health (HRH) Strategic Planning

Technical brief on human resources strategic planning by the Capacity Project.

World Health Report 2006: National Health Workforce Strategies

This chapter of the World Health Report provides a framework for developing a national HRH strategic plan including: building trust and managing expectations; fair and cooperative governing; leadership; strategic intelligence; and workforce institutions.

Guiding Principles for National Health Workforce Strategies

These guidelines help answer what national health workforce plans should contain and how they should be developed to give them the best chance of significantly improving health outcomes and moving countries as rapidly as possible towards universal access to essential health interventions. The guidelines should serve as overarching principles that will promote the success of health workforce plans, while ensuring that they are consistent with human rights.

Policies and Plans for Human Resources for Health: Guidelines for Countries in the WHO African Region

Experience has shown that governments have different kinds of HRH policies, strategies and plans even when they are within the overall context of national health policies and strategies. This document provides guidance on the process with proposals of content for three basic HRH documents: situation analysis, policy, and strategic plan.

Guidelines for Human Resources for Health Policy and Plan Development at Country Level

The main aim of these guidelines is to support countries in the Human Resource Development and management process of assessing the human resource for health situation, policy and plan development with the view of achieving some level of comprehensiveness and consistency country level. The guidelines will discuss HRH processes, situation analysis, policy and plan development with reference to the overall context of national health policies and strategies.

WPRO/RTC Health Workforce Planning Workbook

This workbook has been designed to help you produce a workforce plan. The workbook is set out as the draft of workforce plan for Department of Health of a mythical small island country, Planania. Your task is to make changes in the content of this draft so as to produce a draft plan for your health authority. Although the workbook was designed for use at national level in small countries, it has been used in preparing workforce plans for health systems serving populations of several million people. It can be used for planning at district, regional or national level.

HRH Global Resource Center

A digital library of essential human resources for health information. Look for "Planning" under the "Browse By Subject" menu.

Workforce Planning Models Bibliography

For further reading.