News on Human Resources for Health

Webinar: What we have learned from COVID-19: The need of Advanced Practice Nurses in Health Care

The objective of this Webinar is to discuss the role that advanced practice nurses have had during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the implementation of that role can help countries with low density and distribution of health professionals.

• Skills:

  • Regional

Interprofessional education and the commitment to (re)placing the user at the center of training and practice in health

The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) invites to the conference Interprofessional education and the commitment to (re)placing the user at the center of training and practice in health, which will be presented by Dr. Fernando Menezes, chief of the Human Resources for Health unit, of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Dr. Andreas Xyrichis, Editor-in-chief, Journal of Interprofessional Care, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery & Palliative Carel, King’s College London within the framework of the opening session of the I Week of Education and Interprofessional Work in Health of the Pernambucana Faculty of Health (FPS, for its acronym in English), of Brazil.

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  • Sudamérica
  • País: Brasil

Public Health Leadership: leading the health sector during COVID-19 and beyond - 2020

PAHO and NextGenU launched the new course Public Health Leadership: Leading the health sector during COVID-19 and beyond on October 15th, 2020. 51 officials and health professionals from the ministries of health of 11 countries in the Caribbean are part of the first cohort.

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  • Regional
  • Caribe

World Health Day: WHO and partners call for urgent investments in nursing professionals

7 de abril de 2020 – A pandemia de COVID-19 ressalta a urgente necessidade de fortalecer a força de trabalho global em saúde. Um novo relatório, intitulado The State of the World’s Nursing 2020 (O Estado da Enfermagem no Mundo 2020, em tradução livre ao português), fornece uma visão aprofundada do maior componente da força de trabalho em saúde. As descobertas identificam lacunas importantes na força de trabalho de enfermagem e nas áreas prioritárias para investimento em educação, empregos e liderança para fortalecer a enfermagem em todo o mundo e garantir saúde para todas as pessoas.

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  • Regional

Virtual Course: Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

The World Health Organization (WHO) offers a new virtual course to rate the response of health services in case management COVID-19. This course provides information on what facilities should be doing to be prepared to respond to a case of an emerging respiratory virus such as the novel coronavirus, how to identify a case once it occurs, and how to properly implement IPC measures to ensure there is no further transmission to HCW or to other patients and others in the healthcare facility.

This training is intended for healthcare workers and public health professionals, as it is focused on infection prevention and control.

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  • Regional