The Right to Health and Health Workforce Planning

The purpose of this guide is to explain why it is necessary to ground health workforce planning in human rights, and how to develop a plan that does just that.

After years of insufficient investment, inadequate attention, and ill-advised policies, global attention is now focused on the health workforce. Without a skilled, motivated, and well-equipped health workforce accessible to everyone, health goals will go unrealized and the human right to the highest attainable standard of health unfulfilled. Indeed, the health workforce, improved health outcomes, and human rights are inextricably linked. Not only is a strong health workforce needed for improved health and fulfilling human rights, but human rights are needed to develop the workforce that can lead to overall better health.

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