Region | Countries | Programme areas |
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America Central | Panamá | PHC strengthening, HRH training, training of specialists, and continuing education |
Honduras | Family health (integration between social work students and universities and community health teams) and implementation of PHC services | |
Dominican Republic | Training of PHC teams, training of public health directors, and recruitment to strengthen PHC | |
Guatemala | Training of specialists, university midwifery training, curriculum review and training, and establishment of health careers | |
El Salvador | Human resource planning as a tool for implementing PHC and training of managers and technical teams | |
Belize | PHC provided by community health workers recruited from the community | |
Nicaragua | Organization of a decentralized HRH management system, implementation of a new health delivery model with community participation, and PHC training of support staff (nursing assistants) | |
Costa Rica | Strategic nurse training, PHC strengthening, and training of specialists | |
Mercosur | Argentina | HRH information, permanent health education, joint intersectoral health education, and adapting the training of specialists to regional needs |
Paraguay | Family health unit expansion guided by the PHC and training of family physicians (virtual training) | |
Uruguay | Increasing the number and distribution of nurses, increasing the number of skilled nurses/physicians, changes in work organization, and changes in labour relations | |
Andean | Chile | Training of specialists according to the needs of the population |
Peru | Community service done by qualified and registered health professionals, training of medical specialists, and training for PHC development with emphasis on family and community health at the primary care level | |
Ecuador | Return of health professionals to the country to fulfil the requirements of critical areas, job security planning, and training of medical specialists and subspecialists with affirmative actions allowing incorporating persons belonging to minorities | |
Colombia | Improving the distribution of specialists in the country |