Publication: PNG Health Workforce Crisis: A Call to Action
Date
2011-10
ISSN
Published
2011-10
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
This report documents for the first time
in over a decade the current stock of the publicly financed
health workforce in PNG and their characteristics and
deployment across the country by type of health facility and
health cadre. It also documents the capacity of the
health-related training institutions and presents the
results of an important survey of health training
institutions which enable unit costs, staffing and other
aspects of the institutions to be analyzed together with a
qualitative assessment of the quality of students and of
facilities by training school principals. The report
presents a set of five demand scenarios and draws out the
implications for the health training system and of the
health budget for these scenarios. The National Health Plan
2011-2020 (NHP) recognizes that the emerging crisis in the
health human resources area is a critical issue confronting
any viable strategy designed to implement the objectives it
has set for the health sector. This report helps document
the nature of this emerging crisis and makes specific
recommendations on the way forward.
Citation
“World Bank. 2011. PNG Health Workforce Crisis : A Call to Action. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/27428?show=full License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”