Countries enabled to strengthen their health and care  workforce The Secretariat will support countries to:
build effective workforce leadership and strengthen institutional capacity, including health and care workforce management functions and systems;
strengthen education, training, competencies and lifelong learning to meet population health and care needs, including by promoting and strengthening effective regulations on education and practice;
develop health and care workforce policies and strategies to address the gaps that impede the achievement of universal health coverage and health security; and support the implementation of such policies and strategies and the monitoring of their progress;
develop and cost investment cases and plans in line with population health and care needs, including job creation that takes into consideration equity, diversity and gender;
maintain effective multisectoral and multistakeholder policy dialogues in relation to the health and care workforce;
support decent work for health and care workers, including optimal working conditions, labour protection and respect for rights at work, as well as the prevention of violence against, and sexual harassment of, health and care workers;
strengthen investment to support and sustain health and care workers? health and well-being, including to ensure manageable workloads, determine appropriate staffing levels, protect mental health and provide occupational health support;
support the reform of workforce models and occupations (for example, with respect to skills mix and roles and scopes of practice) in order to effectively and efficiently deliver the essential package of services to respond to population health and care needs;
improve and integrate workforce information systems; strengthen national capacities to monitor, analyse and utilize health labour market data, including by strengthening human resources for health observatories and implementing and reporting on National Health Workforce Accounts; and promote data disaggregation that accounts for gender, diversity and equity;
increase investment (leadership, scope of practice, education and training) in the multidisciplinary primary health care workforce, including nursing and midwifery, in line with population health and care needs;
support management of the international mobility of health workers, including through bilateral and regional cooperation, as well as by reporting on the implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel;
support health workforce capacities for health interventions that are required to deliver a comprehensive package of essential services to cover population needs across the life course, while taking into account the needs of vulnerable and marginalized individuals and communities;
strengthen a multidisciplinary, multisectoral workforce to build resilience and recovery in the context of health outbreaks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and in line with population health and care needs;
ensure dissemination and country support for the implementation of global public health goods;
support Member States in developing agile, high-impact and scalable digital learning solutions that are multilingual, credentialled and tailored to learners? needs through the WHO Academy; and
as part of implementation of the workplan related to the Nursing and midwifery Global Community of Practice, conduct capacity building, campaigns and policy dialogue at the country level, as well as identify gaps in research, which will inform the overall research agenda. Improved access to quality essential health services irrespective of gender, age or disability