Nairobi, Kenya – The World Health Organization, Regional Keep of job for Africa launched the Health Labour Market Analysis (HLMA) Support Tool to support international locations assess their successfully being personnel training ability, provide, inquire of and wish for successfully being workers and facilitate integrating successfully being personnel planning into Health Labour Marker Analysis.
The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021 developed the Health Labour Market Analysis Guidebook, knowledgeable 75 experts from 25 international locations in Africa. Constructing on this, the WHO designed a HLMA Support Tool which affords a sleek personnel planning methodology to estimate the needed successfully being workers to address the disease burden of a nation or geographical areas in step with the general provider capabilities and the reliable standards of care.
Following the open, the WHO will develop the ability of about 50 international experts on the technical and perfect points of conducting an epidemiology-essentially based mostly successfully being personnel desires overview and projections. The training ingredient of the ability constructing workout routines is scheduled to shield from the seventh to 11th of October 2024 in Nairobi Kenya. This comes at a time when Member States are increasingly more adopting this epidemiological methodology to assess the want for successfully being workers, to expose successfully being personnel policy, strategy and funding conception pattern. The experts will make contributions to a pool of regional experts that might support the rising want of Member States asking for for technical support.
While launching the Tool and officially opening the training, Dr Abdourahmane Diallo, the WHO Representative in Kenya, emphasised that stimulating ample and sustainable funding within the successfully being personnel requires complete insights into previous and as much as the moment successfully being personnel dynamics and future projections below varied scenarios, and that the HLMA Support Tool, which has already been extinct by 12 international locations, is excessive in achieving that final consequence.
“The HLMA Support Tool enables users to assess training ability, successfully being personnel provide, inquire of and desires, and title funding requirements for employment. I support you to totally engage on this training and develop your ability to support international locations in conducting sturdy successfully being labour market analyses” he acknowledged.
Despite ongoing growth in developing the successfully being personnel within the African situation right by the previous few decades, projections repeat a attainable shortfall of 6.1 million successfully being workers by 2030, which is excessive to successfully variety out the Living’s disease burden by complete successfully being promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation.
Also, practically 27% of the knowledgeable successfully being workers remain unemployed, underscoring a mismatch between training outputs and staunch job creation. This hole requires a 43% amplify in contemporary funding ranges dedicated to successfully being personnel employment. A successfully being labour market analysis, already conducted in 22 international locations, is excessive to stimulating policy reforms and investments to address these challenges.
The experts, after attending the workshop, are anticipated to utilize the tool in support of Member States that inquire of technical assistance connected to successfully being labour market analysis and need to champion the generation of evidence needed to expose successfully being personnel funding plans and compacts. These are excessive milestones within the implementation of the Africa Health Group of workers Investment Structure which used to be launched in Could 2024.
