BY VARAIDZO MUDEWAIRI THE Health Services Board (HSB) has said it would craft a health sector human resources strategy to address challenges facing the ailing health delivery system
The envisaged strategy, which seeks to provide evidence-based insight into the health needs of the country’s population, follows a week-long workshop held last week on the Health Labour Marketing Analysis (HLMA).
“This is a very important exercise to HSB and to the ministry (of Health and Child Care) that we get scientific information on the health labour market instead of us just sitting down and coming up with what we think,” HSB human resources general manager Nornah Zhou said.
“The World Health Organisation (WHO) has helped us in terms of technical assistance to work out a scientific way of coming up with information that will help us as we now work on the strategic plan.”
The Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health Workforce 2030, adopted in 2016, includes HLMA as a tool for evidence-based health workforce improvements.
Experts say HLMA offers certain advantages over the traditional approach to workforce planning.
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WHO systems strengthening and policy advisor Stanley Midzi said: “We were building the capacity of this team so that they will be able to partake in the work that begins next week which is going to be data capture and analysis of what is happening in terms of population needs and health as well as the demand side, supply side of Human Resources health force in Zimbabwe.”
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