Health-Workforce Performance Report

Running head: HEALTH-WORKFORCE PERFORMANCE REPORT
Health-workforce Performance Report
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Executive summary
The health workforce of a country comprises largely of suppliers of health services and health
management and support employees. Despite few improvements in the situation of the health
workforce since 1997, Nigeria requires to implement severe workers plans to further improve
more effectively. The aim of this study is to prepare for Nigeria a domestic health workforce
plan taking into account their present environmental condition, information profile and
critical problems. From the data analysis, it was discovered that the most critical problem in
Nigeria is the absence of surveillance, control and systematic approach to governance.
Considering the fact that both public and private educational organisations are actively
working to strengthen the healthcare workforce, lack of proper distribution strategy is causing
severe healthcare inequity across the nation.

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Table of Content
Introduction and rationale: ........................................................................................................4
Environmental scan for Nigeria: ...............................................................................................4
Data profile for health workforce: .............................................................................................4
Critical issues to be addressed: .................................................................................................4
Recommendations: ....................................................................................................................4
Conclusion: ...............................................................................................................................4
Reference: .................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction and rationale
As per the definition of World Health Organisation, IHealth employees are all
individuals involved in activities aimed primarily at protecting and improving health. The
health workforce of a country comprises largely of suppliers of health services and health
management and support employees. It is also evident that numbers and proficiency of health
workers directly influence the public health condition of a region. As per the World Health
Organisation presented report of 2016, one of the most poor health workforces facilitated low
to moderate income nation is Nigeria. A huge amount of healthcare workers are present in
Nigeria as health workforce (HRH) in Africa. At the same time, densities of doctors, nurses,
midwives are too low like the other 57 HRH crisis countries to efficiently deliver essential
health services (Who.int., 2018). As per the report of Global Workforce Alliance, the health
service delivery in Nigeria is full of problematic attributes where inequity, lack of
coordination, lack of planning, poor enforcement, incompetent workers are the major
contributors. As per the World Health Organisation report of 2017, the life expectancy at
birth in Nigeria is 54 years which is even lower than other low to middle income countries
such as Ghana, Rwanda and also lower than some lower income countries like Malawi.
Despite of few improvement in health workforce condition from 1997, Nigeria needs serious
workforce plans to be implemented for further more effective improvement (African Health
Observatory., 2016). The purpose of this report is to prepare a national health workforce plan
for Nigeria considering their current environmental situation, data profile and critical issues.
Environmental scan for Nigeria
According to the World Health Organisation a country's capacity to fulfil its health
objectives mainly relies on the understanding, abilities, motivation and implementation of the