Never again? Challenges in transforming the health workforce landscape in post-Ebola West Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 2013-2014 West African Ebola outbreak highlighted how the world's weakest health systems threaten global health security and heralded huge support for their recovery. All three Ebola-affected countries had large shortfalls and maldistribution in their health workforce before the crisis, which were made worse by the epidemic. This paper analyzes the investment plans in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to strengthen their health workforces and assesses their potential contribution to the re-establishment and strengthening of their health systems. The analysis calculates the plans' costs and compares those to likely fiscal space, to assess feasibility.

Methods

Public sector payroll data from 2015 from each country was used for the workforce analysis and does not

SUBMITTER: McPake B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6407225 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature