Activities

The delivery of safe, high quality and efficient health services depends largely upon health workers. Yet the world is faced with a chronic shortage – an estimated 4.2 million health workers are needed to bridge the gap, with 1.5 million needed in Africa alone. This shortage is recognized as one of the most fundamental constraints to achieving sustainable progress on health.

The challenge of access to health workers has not lost any of its relevance since the publication of the 2006 WHO World Health Report: Working Together for Health. Shortages of health workers, unequal distribution, brain drain, among many other related issues, still represent current challenges that developing and developed countries are tackling. These types of situations affect the fair access to health workers for the population.

IHF is involved in the Global Initiative on Healthcare Technologies and participated in the 36th World Hospital Congress in Rio hosted as a pre-congress event the 2^nd Technical Advisory Group Meeting on Health Technology.

The International Hospital Federation is the World leader in the hospital sector, and is actively promoting safety of health facilities.