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Saturday 19 April 2014

Post MDG: Keeping Healthworkers at the Centre

'The Millennium Development Goals are soon coming to an end. [IntraHealth International] President and CEO Pape Gaye offers five key steps to keeping health workers at the center of our next set of global commitments...' Below are extracts. The full text may be read here: http://bit.ly/1kHlqg1 Here are five key steps we in the global health and development field can take to make sure health workers are part of the world’s post-2015 commitments: 1. Give health workers a voice... 'Health workers’ needs are complex, their environments fast-changing. Mobile technology—and the crowdsourcing and peer networking it makes possible—holds great promise in this field. Let’s use the tools we have to amplify health workers’ voices, make them part of health sector planning processes, and create systematic policies to support them.' 2. Ramp up domestic investments in health care... Let’s encourage national governments to increase domestic investment in human resources for health and to create policies that benefit health workers. 3. Advocate for frontline health workers... We must also promote greater south-to-south collaboration. The world could learn a lot from India, for example, which has developed some very advanced strategies for frontline health workers and, through them, has improved health in some of its most impoverished regions. 4. Set our sights on universal health coverage... 5. Embrace a systems-thinking approach... We must set indicators to measure our progress in strengthening health systems the way we did for measuring progress in maternal health and reducing child mortality in 2000...'

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