WHO | Draft outline: World health report 2006

WHO | Draft outline: World health report 2006: "
* As the World health report 2006 (WHR2006) will open World Health Day 2006, which is also expected to launch the Health Workforce Decade (2006–2015), the Report will offer scientific and policy support for the Day and the Decade. The Day will energize relevant constituencies to celebrate health workers around the world. The follow-up activities of the Decade will focus on implementing and evaluating policies and strategies for workforce development. Both the Day and the Decade will emphasize global responsibility for health workforce issues.
* As WHR2006 is the premier report of WHO, it should be evidence-based, of superior technical quality, and foundational for the field. WHR2006 should aim to achieve excellence and a durable shelf-life.
* As WHR2006 aims to mobilize broad constituencies, WHR2006 should adopt an expansive, inclusive, and participatory approach – drawing from, engaging with and inviting contributions from diverse communities within and beyond the WHO – including NGOs and the private sector – even as authority for the Report remains with WHO.
* As WHR2006 is intended to attract key audiences, especially national health leaders, the Report should not be afraid of tackling complexity or controversy, and setting out policy and strategic frameworks for change across the spectrum of health workforce development.
* WHR2006 is set in an ongoing framework of initiatives in health workforce development that have taken place in the past (e.g. primary health care), the present (JLI, HLF) and will take place in the future. While it is the future that we wish to highlight, it is important to learn the lessons of history and of research.

Title: Working for health

The title should convey the core messages; preliminary titles will change over time; subthemes may be interwoven into the major storyline."