PAHO HQ Library Cataloguing-in-Publication
Novick, Marta. Challenges to the Management of Human Resources for Health: 2005-2015. Washington, D.C: PAHO, © 2006.

ISBN 92 75 12688 7

Core Competencies for Public Health: A Regional Framework for the Americas. Edition translated and adapted. Washington, DC: PAHO,2013.

Public Health; Knowledge; Competency-­-Based Education; Knowledge Management for Health Research; Latin America. Caribbean Region

ISBN 978-92-75-11815-3
(NLM Classification: WA21)

Also published in Spanish (2013) with the title: Competencias esenciales en salud pública: un marco regional para las Américas. ISBN
978-92-75-31815-7

This document details the core competencies that all professionals working in public health and health service delivery should possess, regardless of where they work

or the nature of their work. It has been decided that the definition of specific competencies by professional group or level of action will be left for a subsequent phase.

Pan American Health Organization. 

Handbook for Measurement and Monitoring. Indicators of the Regional Goals for Human Resources for Health. A Shared Commitment.

Washington, D.C.: 2011. 59 p.

ISBN 978-92-75-07423-7

Pan American Health Organization.
"Human Resources Plans and Primary Health Care: Challenges for Intersectoral and Social Coordination".
Washington, D.C.: PAHO, © 2011. 210 pgs.

This publication contains the papers presented at the workshop on Human Resource Planning and Primary Health Care:  Challenges for Social and Intersectoral Coordination, held in San Salvador, May 4-6, 2010, organized by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in collaboration with the Ministers of Health of El Salvador and Brazil.


The material collected includes an analysis of the progress in the development of Human Resources Plans in selected countries that have experienced diffi culties
in meeting the Regional Goals for Human Resources for Health. Likewise, it raises discussions and agreements on how to improve coordination among ministries of
Health and their counterparts-Finance, Labor and Education-to make viable plans for human resources for health and to consider some projects funded by
international cooperation that were designed to improve the HRH situation in three countries of the Region.

The purpose of this three-day meeting was to convene representatives of the ministries of health, ministries of education, professional associations, and academic institutions from the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to solicit input and stimulate discussion regarding the rationale, framework, and foundation for interprofessional education (IPE) and to understand different countries’ experiences with IPE and collaborative practices...

Available in Portuguese.

PAHO/HSS/HR
Pan American Health Organization – Area of Health Systems based on Primary Health Care.
"Nurse migration in Guyana"
Washington, D.C.: © 2011
Human Resources Series Nº 64.

The PAHO/WHO Regional Network of Interprofessional Health Education.

Sabrina de Souza Elias Mikael

Silvia Helena De Bortoli Cassiani

Fernando Antonio Menezes da Silva