Crisp on Davos: Invest in Health Worker Training
02/04/2011
Lord Nigel Crisp on the Bangkok Outcome Statement
Lord Crisp is just back from Bangkok, where the Global Health Workforce (GHWA) hosted the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health on January 27-29, 2011. The Bangkok Outcome Statement couldn't be clearer: "A robust health workforce is a core element of health systems in all countries, and critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Universal Health Coverage."
So what does this mean for the ministry leaders in the Ministerial Leadership Initiative's five countries (Ethiopia, Mali, Nepal, Senegal and Sierra Leone)?
It means the challenge of working together with donor countries to mitigate the negative effects of health worker migration. "Happily," Lord Crisp explains, "the world has just begun to take the first steps to act on the problem.
"The World Health Assembly has agreed on a Code of Practice, the UK increased its own training levels and effectively shut its borders to health workers in 2006 and even the U.S., the largest importer, has at last started to expand its medical schools." And GHD's Health Worker Migration Global Policy Advisory Council, of which Lord Crisp is a member, has highlighted some of the innovations countries have developed to manage the flow of trained caregivers from poorer to richer economies.
Read the full blog on the Ministerial Leadership Initiative site. Photo courtesy of MLI.
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