Fourth
AAAH Conference
“Getting committed health workers to the underserved areas:
a challenge for the health systems”
23-25 November 2009
Vietnam
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Background
The Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH),
Ministry of Health
Vietnam and the World Health Organization (WHO) are organizing a
joint conference
between 23-25th November 2009, in Hanoi, Vietnam, with the theme
of “Getting committed
health workers to the underserved areas: a challenge for the health
systems”. The
conference will host both the 4th AAAH annual meeting and the 3rd
meeting of the WHO
expert group on “increasing access to health workers in remote
and rural areas through
improved retention”.
Aims of the conference
The Conference aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the current
situation and strategies to tackle the problems of inequitable distribution
of health workforces, especially those in the underserved areas.
It will also discuss and refine a set of draft global recommendations,
initiated by WHO, to support countries in formulating and implementing
appropriate, comprehensive and feasible interventions to get committed
health workers to underserved areas. This conference will also allow
more intensive networking and capacity building of institutes and
researchers and policy makers interested in the area of human resources
for health. |