Health Work Force Planning

Health Work Force Planning

Executive Summary
Various versions of opinions exist when it comes to deciding what constitutes the health
workforce of a country, majorly depending on the situation the county is in at that point of
time and the way its entirety is monitored and looked after.
Human resources when it comes to health workforce includeevery employee or person who
holds single or multiple jobs at one or more than one location and receives payment in order
to provide voluntary services that maintain the health of the country.Proper workforce
planning can help churn out desired impacts when the aim is to build a healthy system. It will
work towards its duty which includes spreading information about human resources at the
same time helping build evidence in order to support a plan that presents forth a demand for
the required health workers due to their shortage. A proper workforce plan will help enlighten
a country like India, about what changes need to be made in order to have the desired impact
of the quality of services rendered.
Proper analysis of many factors (that seem to prove to be problems or other grieve issues
when it comes to a country) about the health workforce can enlighten and bring about results
which attempt to solve such problems with specific passive-aggressive measures. Every
source used to obtain such information will have its strength and weakness' but will still make
available comprehensive data for future decision making and policy implementation. This can
be done by first conducting an environment scan and later studying the data profiles of the
country. Coming up with contemporary solutions to directly attack the problems at hand
would be the next step, as stated in the following report.

Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction:.......................................................................................................................4
2.0 Environment Scan:.............................................................................................................5
2.1 Composition:..................................................................................................................5
2.2 Density:..........................................................................................................................5
2.3 Urban Rural disparities:.................................................................................................5
2.4 Male Female ratios:........................................................................................................5
2.5 Speed in the growth of doctors:.....................................................................................5
2.6 Education criteria’s:.......................................................................................................5
2.7 Important findings of the environment scan..................................................................6
3.0 Data Profile of the Health workforce in India....................................................................6
3.1 Average population served by an allopathic doctor in each govt..................................6
3.2Rural India is facing most of the brunt.................................................................................8
3.3 Fake Claims....................................................................................................................8
4.0 Objectives for the Five Year plan according to the ten recommendations of the WHO.. .8
4.1 Creation of jobs:.............................................................................................................8
4.2 Equal Gender and Women Rights:.................................................................................9
4.3 Education, skills and training:........................................................................................9
4.4 Technology:...................................................................................................................9
4.5 Collaborations and Co-operations:...............................................................................10
4.6 Crises and humanitarian settings:................................................................................10
4.7 International Migration:...............................................................................................10
5.0 Conclusion:......................................................................................................................10
6.0 Reference:........................................................................................................................12

Introduction:
The potential and the capability of a country in order to meet its own health goals and
objectives mainly and specifically depend on the deployment of people who are responsible
for carrying out and delivering health services, along with motivation, skills and good
knowledge about the same. (Lopes, et al. 2015)
Most of the countries like India, however, lack the necessary human resources to provide
essential health services which are required in order to maintain healthy conditions in a
county. The reasons behind this are poor skills, imbalances in the demographics of the
countries, the constant migration and movement of various health workers in and around the
countries. Such problems need to be attended in order to come with a proper plan to face
these challenges.
The accurate description of Health workforce refers to all the people exclusively involved in
actions, and have their primary intent as the enhancement of health. These human resources
are made up of clinical staff, usually consisting of pharmacists, physicians, nurses as well as
dentists. Along with the main staff, even the management and support staff play a huge role,
they usually include the people that are necessary for the smooth functioning of the health
systems. These include ambulance drivers, accountants, managers amongst many. (World
Health Organization. 2016.)
The rationale behind selecting India as the country to be studied upon was the fact that India
is one of those countries who did not attempt to monitor the resourceseven up till the year
2011 effectively. As comprehensive data of these human resources were not easily available
at any one place, it is understood that when monitoring and studying the resources were
eventually started; it became a must to ensure the reliability of information from various
sources inorder to provide proper analysis. This increased the validity of the health workforce
statistics provided as they were and have been studied under a microscope to put forth only
reliable information. India, like most of the other countries, carries out its Health workforce
survey along with its population survey since 2011.De Bruecker et al. (2015)
On the other hand, when it comes to Health workforce planning, it is essential to have a
reliable system. In case if there exists any kind of a significant lag in it, it can affect the data
and the utility of the information in the process of any kind of decision making. (Pozo-
Martin, et al. 2017)