A cosmopolitan outlook on health workforce development

Global Academic Press “Over the last few decades, the global health workforce (HWF) gap has increased. This gap concerns the skilled HWF required for providing essential health care services across the world in an equitable manner. This thesis takes a cosmopolitan outlook, as coined by Ulrich Beck to describe a reflexive modernity, to study what is required to develop the global health workforce in an equitable manner. It looks into principles and policies of global health governance to assess what has been done to strengthen the health workforce. It also shows that there is a paradox in economic globalization, which leads to a structural problem to invest (sufficiently) in the health workforce at the national level." (Photo by pina messina on Unsplash)

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