04.03.2016
Offline: How to make human resources (for health) exciting

The Lancet In order to protect the public we need a strong health system which depends on well-educated health workers. In his comment Richard Horton empasises the important and often underestimated role of health workers in every society. A new approach is needed in order to inflame a movement for health workers.

Horton hopes that the new global Commission on health employment and economic growth will be able to argue that health workers are an investment and not a cost. (Photo: MamaYe Africa /flickr)