ICN ensuring nurses influence global strategy for health human resources

The ICN code of ethics for nurses.

Human resources for global health: time for action is now.

Over several decades, a global health-workforce crisis has developed before our eyes. The crisis is characterised by widespread global shortages, maldistribution of personnel within and between countries, migration of local health workers, and poor working conditions. The factors that led to this crisis include increased demand for care in developed countries with ageing populations, an upsurge...

Information systems on human resources for health: a global review

BACKGROUND Although attainment of the health-related Millennium Development Goals relies on countries having adequate numbers of human resources for health (HRH) and their appropriate distribution, global understanding of the systems used to generate information for monitoring HRH stock and flows, known as human resources information systems (HRIS), is minimal. While HRIS are increasingly recog...

Preparing nurses for global health care.

In 2009, the World Health Organization published a document proposing global standards for the initial education of professional nurses and midwives, and noted that although nearly 35 million nurses and midwives make up the largest cadre of health care workers globally, they are rarely involved in high level decision-making and policy development (1). The development of the standards addressed ...

[Human resources for health].

El mundo enfrenta una crisis de recursos humanos en salud, la cual afecta particularmente a países en vías de desarrollo. De acuerdo al Informe sobre la salud en el mundo del 2006 (1), existe un grupo de 57 países, la mayoría de ellos africanos, con deficiencias críticas en la cantidad de personal de salud. El Perú posee el triste privilegio de ser el único país sudamericano considerado en este...