Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Human resources for health planning and management in the Eastern Mediterranean region: facts, gaps and forward thinking for research and policy | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Open Access Human resources for health planning and management in the Eastern Mediterranean region facts gaps and forward thinking for research and policy Fadi El-Jardali Diana Jamal Ahmad Abdallah and Kassem Kassak Address Health Management and Policy Department Faculty of Health Sciences American University of Beirut Lebanese Republic Email Fadi El-Jardali - fe08@ Diana Jamal - dsj00@ Ahmad Abdallah - aa59@ Kassem Kassak - kkassak@ Corresponding author Published 23 March 2007 Received II May 2006 Human Resources for Health 2007 5 9 doi 1478-4491-5-9 Accepted 23 March 2007 This article is available from http content 5 1 9 2007 El-Jardali et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The early decades of the 21st century are considered to be the era of human resources for health HRH . The World Health Report WHR 2006 launched the Health Workforce Decade 2006-2015 with high priority given for countries to develop effective workforce policies and strategies. In many countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region EMR particularly those classified as Low and Low-Middle Income Countries LMICs the limited knowledge about the nature scope composition and needs of HRH is hindering health sector reform. This highlights an urgent need to understand the current reality of HRH in several EMR countries. The objectives of this paper are to 1 lay out the facts on what we know about the HRH for EMR countries 2 generate and interpret evidence on the relationship between HRH and health status indicators for LMICs and middle and high income countries MHICs in the context of EMR 3 identify
