Improving the resilience and workforce of health systems for women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health

Abstract

Women's, Children's, and adolesCents' health 32BmJ 351:suppl1 | the bmj Improving the resilience and workforce of health systems for women's, children's, and adolescents' health To achieve the sustainable development goals related to maternal, child, and adolescent health, countries need to integrate targeted interventions within their national health strategies and leverage them into financing, workforce, and monitoring capacity across the system, say James Campbell and colleagues.

Health workforce and governance: the crisis in Nigeria

“…The Nigerian health workforce may have been frustrated overtime, knowing fully well that there are enough resources to respond to basic health needs in the country, with this resulting in the numerous protests and demonstrations against the government in recent times. Several health systems have failed mostly due to their lack of resilience and capacity to respond to pressing health workforce and larger population health needs [31]. …”

Strengthening the global paediatric workforce: the need for a global strategy to ensure better health outcomes for children

“…In the WHO’s ‘Towards a new global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health’,13 training is a key to workforce development, and collaboration is a way to achieve such scale-up. Sustainable Development Goal 3c calls for a substantial increase in health financing and in the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in middle-income countries.…”

“…A disparity exists, however, between population needs and market-based demands, as those countries where basic health needs are the greatest have the fewest economic resources to create employment positions in the public health sector. The proposed sustainable development goals, which are implicit in the ‘Every Woman Every Child’ strategy, will not be achieved without unprecedented international governance and solidarity, together with innovative national approaches to maximise the efficiency of available resources 13. So WHO is calling for training to better support workforce development; collaboration is a key.…”

Health Services Vulnerability During the Ebola Outbreak: A Qualitative Report

“…"lack of isolation" and "environmental control". Multiple studies also mentioned availability of specific places such as isolated or quarantined parts to prevent the spread of disease and the effects of healthy people as one of the resilience aspects of self-regulation [19][20][21]. In addition, it seems that in this case, lack of risk perception at different levels in the health system and the weakness of the infrastructure caused lack of having a program for creating readiness and capacity building.…”

“…Campbell et al Miller and WHO reports, all emphasized the importance of complying with the control and prevention guidelines [19,20]. Other cases of personnel vulnerability include "problems due to traffic and transfer and patient triage in the health center".…”