Human Resources Plans and Primary Health Care: Challenges for Intersectoral and Social Coordination

Abstract

[Introduction] This publication contains the papers presented at the workshop on Human Resource Planning and Primary Health Care: Challenges for Social and Intersectoral Coordination, held in San Salvador, May 4-6, 2010, organized by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in collaboration with the Ministers of Health of El Salvador and Brazil.1 The workshop is part of an effort to make priority changes in the status of health workers in Latin American countries within the framework of agreements adopted at the 2007 Pan American Sanitary Conference. It defi ned the Regional Goals for Human Resources for Health (HRH) for 2007-2015, in the process of transforming health systems towards the renewal of Primary Health Care and the integration of services.