Public Workforce Management
We begin with chapter 15: Human Resource Management from the ‘Management of Healthcare Systems’ book by Sonu Goel and Arun Kumar Aggarwal. Then one article on the creation of a public health cadre titled: Professionalizing public health management. T. Sundararaman, Daksha Parmar, Seminar, Issue No. 714 , February 2019, 52 — a discussion on public health cadre and such other things. And a third on “Indian approaches to retaining skilled health workers in rural areas;” Thiagarajan Sundararaman & Garima Gupta; Bulletin World Health Organization 2011;89:73–77
The issue of which type of professionals are most fit for purpose has been discussed in the earlier decades. We present three articles relating to this….
One of the major problematics of public health workforce management is on how to get the appropriate person in terms of skills but also in terms of motivation and willingness to work there and how to attract and retain them in remote and rural areas and under serviced communities. Two influential studies that looked at this question was Why Some Doctors Serve in Rural Areas: A Qualitative Assessment from Chhattisgarh State and Location and vocation: why some government doctors stay on in rural Chhattisgarh, India
At a time when there was much controversy about mid-level health providers, 2 studies that helped the discussion were Which Doctor For Primary Health Care? An Assessment Of Primary Health Care Providers In Chhattisgarh, India and As good as physicians: patient perceptions of physicians and non-physician clinicians in rural primary health centers in India
A broad overview of the entire topic is available in this policy paper: Human Resources for Health in India Strategies For Increasing The Availability Of Qualified Health Workers In Underserved Areas, that was used internally in 2009
