Nairobi, Kenya – The World Well being Group, Regional Workplace for Africa launched the Well being Labour Market Evaluation (HLMA) Assist Device to help nations assess their well being workforce schooling capability, provide, demand and want for well being employees and facilitate integrating well being workforce planning into Well being Labour Marker Evaluation.
The World Well being Group (WHO) in 2021 developed the Well being Labour Market Evaluation Guidebook, educated 75 consultants from 25 nations in Africa. Constructing on this, the WHO designed a HLMA Assist Device which provides a novel workforce planning strategy to estimate the wanted well being employees to handle the illness burden of a rustic or geographical areas based mostly on the important service packages and the skilled requirements of care.
Following the launch, the WHO will construct the capability of about 50 worldwide consultants on the technical and sensible features of conducting an epidemiology-based well being workforce wants evaluation and projections. The coaching element of the capability constructing workouts is scheduled to carry from the seventh to eleventh of October 2024 in Nairobi Kenya. This comes at a time when Member States are more and more adopting this epidemiological strategy to evaluate the necessity for well being employees, to tell well being workforce coverage, technique and funding plan improvement. The consultants will contribute to a pool of regional consultants that can assist the rising variety of Member States requesting for technical assist.
While launching the Device and formally opening the coaching, Dr Abdourahmane Diallo, the WHO Consultant in Kenya, emphasised that stimulating enough and sustainable funding within the well being workforce requires complete insights into previous and current well being workforce dynamics and future projections beneath totally different situations, and that the HLMA Assist Device, which has already been utilized by 12 nations, is vital in reaching that end result.
“The HLMA Assist Device permits customers to evaluate schooling capability, well being workforce provide, demand and desires, and determine funding necessities for employment. I encourage you to completely interact on this coaching and construct your capability to assist nations in conducting sturdy well being labour market analyses” he acknowledged.
Regardless of ongoing progress in growing the well being workforce within the African area over the previous few a long time, projections point out a possible shortfall of 6.1 million well being employees by 2030, which is critical to successfully sort out the Area’s illness burden by means of complete well being promotion, illness prevention, remedy, rehabilitation, and palliation.
Additionally, practically 27% of the educated well being employees stay unemployed, underscoring a mismatch between coaching outputs and precise job creation. This hole requires a 43% enhance in present funding ranges devoted to well being workforce employment. A well being labour market evaluation, already carried out in 22 nations, is vital to stimulating coverage reforms and investments to handle these challenges.
The consultants, after attending the workshop, are anticipated to use the device in assist of Member States that request technical help associated to well being labour market evaluation and can champion the technology of proof wanted to tell well being workforce funding plans and compacts. These are vital milestones within the implementation of the Africa Well being Workforce Funding Constitution which was launched in Might 2024.