Health Human Resource Planning and Policy Training in Republic of Vietnam

The World Health Organization has projected health human resource in health sector as global issue at the top of international agenda, as majority of the countries are facing this acute problem. Vietnam is no longer an acceptation, as ministry of health took this as an important task. It had planned capacity building of health planners, with assistance from international specialist on health human resources development planning reform through HHRSDP Project Management Unit.  To me it becomes equally challenging, as the process of HR planning should be simple enough to fit in the current structure of public health system of the country. Adopted the World Health Organization’s HRH framework having  four action phases and six element of planning, by developing formats for HR data collection using ‘4ME’ formula using bottom up approach, helped the policy and programme managers to look insight of the problem for better HR planning at Province, Central and Country level. These efforts has successfully streamlined in the current public health system of the country but has put forward demanded with early computerization to deal such a huge database and thus also suggested to have clear guidelines to implement the same. The country forward to articulate the innovation made in the current workshop for future implementation as per the demand of the country. Circulation: Strictly restricted for more details contact: drharshitsinha@consultant.com