World Health Worker Week 2019 Marks Progress, Push for Universal Health Coverage

April 01, 2019As World Health Worker Week 2019 begins today,IntraHealth International and theFrontline Health Workers Coalition are celebrating our progress in strengthening health workforces and systems worldwide, while also advocating for new coordinated investments to address the most acute gaps in access to trained, supported, and safe health workers worldwide. IntraHealth serves as the secretariat for the coalition, which is an alliance of 41 public and private organizations.On the ground in 2018 alone, IntraHealth:Reached341,445 health workers through its projects and initiatives, including providingtraining for 26,382 of them.Supported32,554 health facilities to provide services that meet their national standards.Strengthened the health workforce management systems of24,598 local partners.Helped330 organizations redistribute their workforces to better align with populations ’ needs.Expanded applications of ouriHRIS software to27 countries that are now using the technology to manage their health worker data.And through IntraHealth ’s longstanding partner-based approach, together with the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and other partners around the world, we’ve helped ignite concrete actions by global policy-makers to strengthen the global health workforce, including:The first-ever global strategy on the health workforce,Workforce 2030, which was adopted unanimously by member states at the World Health Assembly.A specific target on strengthening the health work...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: World Health Worker Week Health Workforce & Systems Source Type: news