Estimating the health workforce requirements and costing to reach 70% COVID-19 vaccination coverage by mid-2022: a modelling study and global estimates

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The implementation of COVID-19 vaccination globally poses unprecedented stress to health systems particularly for countries with persisting health workforce shortages prior the pandemic. The present paper estimates the workforce requirement to reach 70% COVID-19 vaccination coverage in all countries by mid-2022 using service target–based estimation.

Methods

Health workforce data from National Health Workforce Accounts and vaccination coverage reported to WHO as of January 2022 were used. Workload parameters were used to estimate the number of health workers needed with a service target–based approach, the gap and the scale-up required partially accounting for countries’ challenges, as well as the associated costs in human resources.

Results

As of 1 Jan

SUBMITTER: Boniol M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9361754 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature