Elif İŞLEK Nurse, Health Management MSc. School of Public Health Turkish Ministry of Health

1. STRATEGIC PLANNING ON HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH IN TURKEY (2008-2023) Elif İŞLEK Nurse,Health Management MSc. School of Public Health Turkish Ministry of Health

2. HRH Strategic Planning • Determination of HRH needs of Turkey for the next 15 years • Forecasting of health professional and new health jobs according to health care demands tendency and demographical changes and planning of their distribution • Planning of scaling up HRH production

3. HRH-STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS • HRH-situational analysis (Harvard Assessment Tool) • HRH-policy development workshop • TIH-HRH Unit “task force” identified and work plan prepared • WHO-simulation models translated into Turkish and task force trained on how to use it • Required HR data collected and collated according to model format • Policy group and • Technical Working Group identified.

4. HRH-Strategic Planning Key Planning Assumptions • Dominant morbidity and mortality patterns • Relative emphasis given to public sector vs. private sector • Growth rate in public health expenditure • Growth rate in private health expenditure • Relative emphasis given to personnel vs. non-personnel expenditure • Relative emphasis given to preventive vs. curative care • Relative emphasis given to primary care vs. higher-level care • Relative emphasis given to urban population vs. rural population • Relative emphasis given to high, medium and support level personnel • Other assumptions that will affect this scenario

5. CONTENT OF THE HRH STRATEGIC PLAN DOCUMENT

6. CONTENT OF THE HRH STRATEGIC PLAN DOCUMENT

7. CONTENT OF THE HRH STRATEGIC PLAN DOCUMENT VII. STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN A. Actions and Activities That Will Be Required VIII. MONITORING AND EVALUATION A. Protocols for Implementation Achievements B. Specification of Important Progress Events C. Process for Annual Evaluation and Re-planning of Activities

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