Health Workforce Planning

Running head: HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
Health workforce planning
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Executive Summary
The global economy has created a total of 40 million jobs in the health sector by 2030 and it will
represent the workforce globally. However, it is important to note that the majority of the jobs
will be created in the developed and wealthy country and it will create a short of 18 million of
health workers especially in the lower middle income and low-income countries. India falls in
the low-income category country and it is important to mention that India is currently facing a
shortage of the health workforce. As per the WHO report on "The health workforce in India" the
total population was 1028610328 for the year 2001 and the total number of health workers was
2069540. It is important to mention that 83 percent of the total nurse workforce are female
nurses, while 30 percent of the entire health workers form the female health workers. It has also
been seen that about 53 percent of the male health workers are the doctors and only 17 percent of
the female health workforce were the doctors. The north-central states and the northeastern states
have a low density of the qualified workers and it is less when compared with the national
average. Similarly, the densities of the midwives, doctors and the qualified nurses varied largely
across the states and the same kind of the distribution patterns is not followed by the qualified
health workers.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Rationale..........................................................................................................................................4
Environmental Scan for the health workforce.................................................................................4
Data profile of the health workforce by category............................................................................6
Strategies relevant to implement the workforce plan......................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
Reference.......................................................................................................................................12

3HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
Introduction
Workforce planning can be described as the process which ensures an organization to
have both the current and future access to the human capital and it also ensures the process
functions in an effective manner. Therefore, it can be said that workplace planning includes the
identification of both the current and future needs of the employees or staffs and explore the
cost-effective and appropriate means of retaining and recruiting the individuals. It has been
highlighted by the United Nations commission that there will be a shortfall of the 18 million
healthcare workers by the year 2030. It has mainly emphasized that the healthcare workers will
mainly be low in the countries that are low to middle-income countries so that the population
needs are achieved and met. This is done through a proper universal health coverage and it
increases the economic growth. This report has mentioned that the demand for the health
workers has increased to a great extent due to the increased rates of the non-communicable
diseases as well as the increase in aged population (Myrick & del Vecchio, 2016). The global
economy is projected to actually create a total of 40 million jobs in the health sector by 2030 and
it will represent the workforce globally. However, it is important to note that the majority of the
jobs will be created in the developed and wealthy country and will create a short of 18 million of
health workers especially in the lower middle income and low-income countries (Limb, 2016).
Therefore, it is important to mention that the investment in the health workforce is highly
required for making progress towards sustainable development goals. The goal also includes
inclusive economic growth, global security, and gains in health. This study will emphasize on the
development of a workforce plan in India and it will include the preparation of an environmental
scan, identification of the critical issues and the development strategies so that the issues are
identified. The national workforce plan will include a 5- year plan.