Framework for action on interprofessional education & collaborative practice
Overview
The need to strengthen health systems
based on the principles of primary
health-care has become one of the
most urgent challenges for policymakers, health workers, managers
and community members around the
world. Human resources for health are
in crisis. The worldwide shortage of 4.3
million health workers has unanimously
been recognized as a critical barrier to
achieving the health-related Millennium
Development Goals.
In 2006, the
59th World Health Assembly responded
to the human resources for health crisis
by adopting resolution WHA59.23
which called for a rapid scaling-up of
health workforce production through
various strategies including the use
of “innovative approaches to teaching
in industrialized and developing
countries”.
Governments around the world
are looking for innovative, systemtransforming solutions that will
ensure the appropriate supply, mix and
distribution of the health workforce. One
of the most promising solutions can be
found in interprofessional collaboration.