Attainment of this outcome requires:

a) Strengthening and consolidating governance and leadership in human resources for health (HRH), including decentralized management and a transdisciplinary vision of teamwork.

b) Developing conditions and capacities in HRH to expand access to health and health coverage, with equity and quality, by developing instruments for monitoring and evaluation of health workforce performance, exploring strategies to enhance health workers’ motivation and engagement, and fostering the development of a well-trained workforce.

c) Partnering with the education sector to respond to the qualitative and quantitative needs of health systems in transformation toward universal access to health and universal health coverage.

Key components include actions to foment high-level coordination and collaboration mechanisms with education, labor, and other sectors to strengthen HRH planning and regulation and better address health system requirements and population needs; strengthen strategic planning capacity and HRH information systems to better inform planning and decision making; develop national HRH policies aimed at enhancing recruitment, training, retention, and distribution of health personnel, in line with the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel; increase public investment and financial efficiency in HRH; prioritize interprofessional teams at the first level of care, including community health workers and caregivers; develop strategies to maximize, upgrade, and regulate the competencies of the health team to ensure their optimal utilization; enhance dialogue, partnerships, and agreements to address the challenges of health worker mobility and migration; promote high-level agreements between education and health sectors to shift the educational paradigm and align HRH training with universal health; develop evaluation and accreditation mechanisms to promote improvements in the quality of professional health education; encourage transformation in the education of health professionals toward the principles of social accountability and culturally inclusive selection/admission criteria; and develop regulatory mechanisms and training plans for priority specialties that stipulate health system requirements; and increase training in family and community health.

Note: For further details on the scope of this Outcome, please refer to the PAHO Strategic Plan 20-25 Document.