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Human Resources for Health
Open Access
Editorial
Call for manuscripts: "Towards a scaling-up of training and
education for health workers"
Mario R Dal Poz
1
, Hugo Mercer
1
, Margaret Gadon
2
and Daniel MP Shaw*
1
Address:
1
Department of Human Resources for Health, Health Systems and Services, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva,
Switzerland and
2
American Medical Association, 515 N. State Street, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
Email: Mario R Dal Poz - ; Hugo Mercer - ; Margaret Gadon - ;
Daniel MP Shaw* -
* Corresponding author
Joint call for papers for special issue of the
journals
Education for Health (cationfor
health.net)
Human Resources for Health (an-
resources-health.com)

• regulatory frameworks for education and practice
• labour market dynamics after the production of health
workers (e.g. retention)
• training teams rather than individuals
• skills mix
• multi-skilled workers, responsive to exiting needs
• task-shifting/role substitution
• competency-based education and training
Examples of questions that could be considered are
• What ongoing efforts to increase graduate level primary
care training have been established in developing coun-
Published: 6 June 2007
Human Resources for Health 2007, 5:14 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-5-14
Received: 30 April 2007
Accepted: 6 June 2007
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