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Jim Campbell is the Director of the Health Workforce Department at the World Health Organization, and the Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), a hosted partnership established at the WHO in 2006 with a ten-year mandate to support actions on the health workforce crisis in low- and middle-income countries. His role at WHO has included the development of and a global consultation on WHO’s Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 for submission to the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly, and support to the High-level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth; an initiative to inform multi-sectoral engagement on the Global Strategy.  Prior to joining WHO and GHWA he spent eight years as the founder/Director of a not-for-profit research institute. His publications include A Universal Truth: No Health Without a Workforce (2013), and the State of the World’s Midwifery reports (2011 and 2014).

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    Health Labor Market Analyses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Evidence-Based Approach
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2016-10-12) Scheffler, Richard M.; Herbst, Christopher H.; Lemiere, Christophe; Campbell, Jim; Scheffler, Richard M.; Herbst, Christopher H.; Lemiere, Christophe; Campbell, Jim; Araújo, Edson C.; Bruckner, Tim; Damascène Butera, Jean; Cohen, Robert; El Maghraby, Atef; Jaskiewicz, Wanda; Keuffel, Eric; Leonard, Kenneth; Lievens, Tomas; Liu, Lenny; Mæstad, Ottar; Menkulasi, Genta; Ozden, Caglar; Phillips, David; Preker, Alex S.; Scott, Anthony; Serneels, Pieter; Soucat, Agnes; Spetz, Joanne; Tulenko, Kate; Zolia, Yah M.
    This book, produced jointly by the World Bank, the University of California, Berkeley, and the WHO, aims to provide decision-makers at sub-national, national, regional and global levels with additional insights into how to address their workforce challenges rather than describe them. In order to optimize and align HRH investments and develop targeted policy responses, a thorough understanding of unique, country-specific labor market dynamics and determinants of these dynamics is critical. Policies need to take into account the fact that workers are economic actors, responsive to different levels of compensation and opportunities to generate revenue found in different sub-labor markets. Policies need to take into account the behavioral characteristics of the individuals who provide health care, but also the individuals who consume health care services and the institutions that employ health personnel. In other words, it is necessary to understand the determinants of both the supply (numbers of health workers willing to work in the health sector) and the demand for health workers (resources available to hire health workers), how these interact, and how this interaction varies in different contexts. This interaction will determine the availability of health personnel, their distribution as well as their performance levels, thus ensuring stronger health systems capable to deliver universal health coverage. The book is structured to be of use to researchers, planners, and economists who are tasked with analyzing key areas of health labor markets, including overall labor market assessments as well as and more narrow and targeted analyses of demand and supply (including production and migration), performance, and remuneration of health workers. The chapters, written by a number of internationally renowned experts on Human Resources for Health, discuss data sources and empirical tools that can be used to assess health labor markets across high-, middle- or low-income countries, but draws primarily from examples and case-studies in LMICs.