The whole world is now facing a chronic shortage of health workers as a result of decades of under-investment in their education, training, salaries, working environment and management.
This has led to a severe lack of key skills, rising levels of career switching and early retirement, as well as a national and international migration.
To mark the World Health Organization’s World Health Day 2006, the Zuellig Foundation and the Ateneo Graduate School of Business-Health Unit will draw attention to the global health workforce crisis – paying particular focus on the Philippines – and celebrate the dignity and value of working for health by jointly convening a policy forum on Tuesday, April 18, 1 to 6 p.m. at the Ateneo Professional Schools in Rockwell, Makati City.
The forum will be titled "Health worker migration: Stemming the tide, securing the future," and will serve as a venue for the country’s Human Resources for Health (HRH) stakeholders to articulate the important issues surrounding health worker migration, focusing on the need to forge a national HRH agenda and the imperative of engaging the private sector in out-migration management.
The forum will feature the participation of the WHO Directorate for Human Resources for Health, led by former Health Secretary Dr. Manuel Dayrit, via a live video feed from Geneva, Switzerland and incumbent Health Secretary Dr. Francisco T. Duque III, who will deliver the response and closing remarks.
For more information, contact the Zuellig Foundation at 893-1449 or e-mail communications@zuelligfoundation.org; or the Ateneo Graduate School of Business-Health Unit at 899-4589.
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