The World Health Organization (WHO) just released “Strengthening the collection, analysis and use of health workforce data and information: a handbook” – produced by its Health Workforce Department in collaboration with the Global Health Workforce Network’s (GHWN) Data and Evidence Hub. The handbook offers guidance on how to strengthen human resources for health (HRH) data to support evidence-based policy and decision-making that foster the development of a health workforce that provides g quality services responsive to the evolving needs and to all who need those services. THEnet is excited that its members were highly involved in developing three chapters:
Chapter 3: The production and development of a health workforce in support of UHC
Chapter 4: Where do graduates go? Developing a graduate tracking system: the experience of THEnet
Chapter 8: Health workforce access: opening an HRH equity assessment lens
Chapter 4 presents THEnet’s unique multi-country, multi-institutional tracking of graduates model, developed by our Graduate Outcome Study team, composed of researchers from socially accountable health workforce education institutions on four continents. (See the framework for data collection presented in the chapter below.) The model evaluates data on graduates from pre-admission into full practice. Results include data on practice type and location, the populations graduates serve, and the services and care they provide. The chapter offers an overview of the benefits, methodologies and questions answered by tracking studies and presents examples from THEnet member institutions in Australia, Canada, and the Philippines. For more on THEnet’s Graduate Outcome Study and associated tools click here
