Useful web links

Eldis dossier: human resources for health
www.eldis.org/healthsystems/dossiers/hr/index.htm

Equinet Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa network doing work on equity in health worker distribution.
www.equinetafrica.org/workhuman.php

Global Health Trust: Joint Learning Initiative
Enterprise working to improve the global health workforce.
www.globalhealthtrust.org

Human Resources Development Journal
www.moph.go.th/ops/hrdj

Human Resources for Health: online journal
www.human-resources-health.com

International Council of Nurses Global Nursing Workforce
Project aiming to clarify the extent of the global nursing shortage.
www.icn.ch/global

Latin American and Caribbean Observatory of Human Resources in Health
www.lachsr.org/observatorio/eng/index.html

MEDACT
UK charity focused on the impact of development, environment and conflict on health systems. Their website contains a section on the brain drain.
medact.org/hpd_brain_drain.php

World Bank: personnel management
www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/civilservice/personnel.htm

World Health Organisation: global atlas of the health workforce
www.who.int/globalatlas/default.asp

World Health Organisation: human resources for health
The forthcoming World Health Report 2006 will focus on the health workforce.
www.who.int/hrh/en

Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo
Health Policy Unit
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
UK
T +1 (0) 20 7927 2284
Alvaro.Alonso@lshtm.ac.uk

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