The population health needs in any country should be the basis for determining the size of the workforce and how the workforce is educated—not the other way around (WHO 2011). Achieving this interdependence between the population health needs and health professions education is crucial for attaining progressive universal health coverage.
Therefore, a needs-based approach to health workforce planning—from education to employment and equitable distribution—has been desired for decades, but methodological gaps and a lack of simple, open-access tools have limited its real-life application in policy and planning in countries. In this seminar, the development of an open-access tool based on mathematical modelling for linking population health needs to the planning of health professions education and employment of health professionals in any country will be discussed.
A systematic application of the model in Ghana has shown reasonable outputs. Health professionals, academics, health planners, and policymakers desirous of an evidence-based approach to linking actual disease burden and health professionals’ productivity or workload to plan the future number of health professionals should attend this seminar for an exciting insight.
Presenter: Mr James Avoka Asamani
Scope of the Seminar
Presenters
Co-presenter: Prof Andrew Robinson
To RSVP or for more information, please contact Paula Jardim / 018 299 2683 (Centre for Health Professions Education, Faculty of Health Sciences)