National Health Workforce Plan

Task:

The WHO has a system of classification of countries by region and income which is described in Annex 1 of the World Health Statistics Report, 2015 . (WHO, 2015) (p.160-161). Use the table showing countries on Page 161 in the low and lower-middle income categories to select the country you will use to develop the health workforce plan. 3 This report also provides a range of statistics on the health workforce by country.
The assignment will be scaffolded so that tutorials will support the development of the National Health Work- force Plan on key topics relevant to the development of the workforce plan, including preparing an Environmental Scan, analyzing the national health workforce data set, identifying critical issues and developing strategies to address the issues identified. The National Workforce Plan should be a five year plan.

Prepare a Table of Contents for the National Health Workforce Plan using report format.

• Draft the Introduction for the Workforce Plan, including documentation of the rationale for selection of the country.
  
• Prepare the Environmental Scan for the health workforce of the selected country using national and international health workforce references including policy and planning documents, and any relevant health workforce plans.
  
• Prepare a data profile of the health workforce by category using WHO data and other data sources. Develop the workforce profile using tables and graphs and supporting explanatory text.
  
• Based on the previous steps and relevant literature, identify critical issues to be addressed in the workforce plan.
  
• Use the set of ten recommendations developed in the WHO 2016 report Working for health and growth: investing in the health workforce 4 as a framework to develop strategies relevant to implement the workforce plan (WHO, 2016, p.11-12).