Investing in human resources for health: the need for a paradigm shift

Development partner strategies and sup - in the area of human resources for (HRH) have been shaped by key and events over the past decade. 2004, when Lancet Joint Learning Initiative’s call to over - the HRH crisis, 1 global health has been trying to address critical issues surrounding HRH. The 10-year action plan on HRH proposed world health report 2006 2 the in the same year of the Health Workforce Alliance have unprecedented attention to HRH. to a growing body of evidence, 2 issues have gradually made their way the global health arena. Consensus has on the “power of health workers” 1 their critical importance to health strengthening and disease control