Table 1 Key World Health Assembly resolutions impacting the global development and use of HRHIS (2000–2022)
Date | Resolution | Importance |
|---|---|---|
May 2006 | WHA 59.27 Strengthening nursing and midwifery [4] | Focused on the global shortage of doctors, nurses, and midwives; similar timing as the World Health Report (2006) |
May 2007 | WHA 60.27 Strengthening of health information systems [5] | Encouraged WHO member states to develop and use accurate data to estimate workload for health workers |
May 2010 | WHA 63.15 Health worker information systems and WHA 63.16 Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel [6] | Encouraged WHO member states to develop health worker information systems including data on migration of health personnel and encouraged member states to promote sustainable health systems |
May 2016 | WHA 69.19 Global Strategy on HRH: Workforce 2030 [7] | Instrumental in laying out four major initiatives: having evidence-informed policies to optimize the workforce; catalyzing investments in health labor markets to meet population needs; building institutional capacity and partnerships in HRH governance and leadership; and using data for monitoring and accountability, including the implementation of the NHWA and annual reporting to the WHO Global Health Observatory |
May 2017 | WHA 70.6 Working for Health: 5-year action plan for health employment and inclusive economic growth (2017–2021) [8] | A mechanism for coordinating the intersectoral implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, supporting WHO’s Global Strategy on HRH: Workforce 2030 and advancing universal health coverage (UHC). It gave impetus to two recommendations related to HRH data: 1) the establishment of an interagency data exchange and an online knowledge platform on the health and social service workforce; and 2) the establishment of an international platform on health worker mobility |
May 2021 | WHA A74/8 Strengthening health information systems [9] | Measures progress made toward implementing WHA60.27 and given COVID-19 highlights the importance of data and health information systems (HIS) in guiding policy responses to the crisis; current data and HIS are inadequate to track health emergency protection, preparedness, and recovery |
May 2021 | WHA 74.14, Protecting, safeguarding, and investing in the health and care workforce [10] | The Working for Health 2022–2030 Action Plan [11] responds to WHA 74.14, which calls for a clear set of actions for accelerating investments in health worker education, skills, employment, safeguarding, and protection to 2030 |