Suwit Wibulpolprasert

TL;DR: This analysis of the global workforce proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries.

TL;DR: The global community needs to engage in four core strategies: raise the profile of the issue of human resources; improve the conceptual base and statistical evidence available to decision makers; collect, share, and learn from country experiences; and begin to formulate and enact policies at the country level that affect all aspects of the crisis.

TL;DR: This paper aims to summarize strategies to solve inequitable distribution of human resources for health between urban and rural areas, by using four decades of experience in Thailand as a case study for analysis.

TL;DR: Improved global health monitoring requires new technologies and methods, strengthened national capacity, norms and standards, and gold standard global reporting.

TL;DR: It is proposed that governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) address this failure responsibly by mandating more systematic and transparent use of research evidence to assess the likely outcomes of public programmes before they are launched, and the better use of well designed impact evaluations after they are launch.