A Call To Action: Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health

In an effort to support and acknowledge the difficulty to build sustainable health systems with the instability of reliance on large scale emigration, the 2007 A Call to Action: Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health was held on March 22, 2007. This meeting addressed what we have done and what action steps we can take to solve this critical problem. With a multi-disciplinary focus, and a convening of global stakeholders, this meeting stimulated discussion and spotlighted evidence-based, pragmatic approaches to build, retain and sustain a workforce, both nationally and internationally. Policy implications were addressed as well as promising practices for the hospital, the health care community and society. The meeting also linked research, policy and action for global human resources for health.

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