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Dalhousie University/WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research: planning for HHR around the world.

Improving health services changes lives and transforms communities. The key element in the delivery of health services is an effective, productive workforce. Up to 80% of operational costs in health systems are related to staff and employment. The provision of sustainable health systems that deliver effective services to the communities they serve depends on health human resources (HHR) planning. However, in spite of significant reforms in recent years, health systems still face serious workforce challenges. Aging populations, limited budgets, changing public expectations, new technologies, and the emergence of new diseases are testing health systems as they consider ways to meet needs and protect, promote, and restore health. Traditional planning methods for the professionals required to provide these services have given little consideration to changes in the needs of the populations they serve or to changes in the amount/types of services offered or how they are delivered. The aim of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research, based at Dalhousie University, is to build local and global capacity for HHR planning that is based on people’s health needs. The Centre’s work falls into three areas: HHR planning. Whenever possible, the development and testing of enhanced methods of HHR planning is carried out in collaboration with the Centre’s Canadian and international partners. In this respect, the organization acts as a resource centre, providing and disseminating information and knowledge on planning for health systems and HHR using needs-based approaches. Capacity-building and knowledge exchange. The Centre strives to build global capacity for and exchange knowledge about HHR planning in a number of ways: by offering the expertise of its members to the Pan CJNR 2010, Vol. 42 No 4, 81–85