Working for Health and Growth - Investing in the health workforce
This new report launched by the UN High-Level Commission on Health and Employment Growth (ComHEEG) proposes ambitious solutions to ensure that the world has the right number of jobs for health workers with the right skills and in the right places to deliver universal health coverage.
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"Working for Health and Growth - Investing in the Health Workforce" outlines recommendations made by 24 Commissioners, including PSI General Secretary, Rosa Pavanelli, to stimulate and guide the creation of at least 40 million new jobs in the health and social sectors, and to reduce the projected shortfall of 18 million health workers, primarily in low- and middle-income countries, by 2030.
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Read more:
- UN Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth launches report
- PSI General Secretary statement at the 2nd ComHEEG meeting
- PSI influencing United Nations policy on health employment
- Rosa Pavanelli joins UN Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth
- For more information about the Commission, please visit www.who.int/hrh/com-heeg/.
- PSI's publication "Safe Workers Save Lives: PSI Health Priorities and Trade Union Response to the Ebola Virus Disease"
- PSI pages on health & social care services