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Subject: New MSH Occasional Paper, "Establishing Human Resource Systems for
Health during Postconflict Reconstruction"

  <http://www.msh.org/resources/publications/pdf/HRH_Postconflict.pdf>

Health services are severely fragmented in countries emerging from a prolonged
period of conflict. Developing the health workforce and restoring health
services are essential components of any major nation rebuilding, helping to
reduce morbidity and mortality and providing an important entry point for
engagement between the government and civil society.

Many human resources for health (HRH) problems that must be faced in the
postconflict period derive from past short-term emergency approaches. A
development approach to rebuilding the health workforce and its supporting
human resource systems moves away from crisis responses and toward building and
strengthening the workforce in a planned and sustained manner.

MSH's newest Occasional Paper, "Establishing Human Resource Systems for Health
during Postconflict Reconstruction," discusses HRH issues in the critical
start-up period of reconstruction. It examines the issues and implications of
restoring a health workforce within the intensely complex political environment
that characterizes postconflict reconstruction and presents the key actions for
reconstructing the health workforce. Examples are drawn from Afghanistan and
Cambodia, two countries that experienced more than 20 years of conflict.
Authors of this paper are Joyce H. Smith, RN, HV, MPhil, Human Resource
Development Specialist for the USAID-funded Rural Expansion of Afghanistan's
Community-based Healthcare (REACH) Program, and Riitta-Liisa
Kolehmainen-Aitken, MD, DrPH, Principal Associate, Management Sciences for
Health.
MSH's Occasional Papers

<http://www.msh.org/resources/publications/occasional.html>
present provocative explorations of timely topics in the management of health
programs. The Occasional Papers are intended to stimulate dialogue among
development colleagues around the world and further the body of knowledge about
a wide range of technical areas. This paper can be downloaded at no cost from
MSH's website at:

http://www.msh.org/resources/publications/pdf/HRH_Postconflict.pdf.

[We encourage you to forward it to your colleagues.]


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