Financing the Education of Health Workers

This volume reviews the economic underpinnings (investment and financing) and institutional reforms needed to successfully scale up the education of health workers. In this regard, the book examines five major economic and institutional challenges that policy makers face: (1) governance of health education organizations and systems; (2) approaches to financing the education of health workers; (3) the special nature of capital investment in expanding the capacity of health education institutions; (4) public-private partnerships in health education; and (5) equity in accessing health education, with a special focus on issues that arise from private approaches to the education of health workers.

Much of the existing literature focuses on the quality and contents of training health workers, and very little has been written on the institutional dimension of financing their training and education. This book examines the complex institutional and financial models and approaches that can impact the demand and supply of health worker education programs around the world.

Building on the findings of the Independent Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, which published on the foundations and the issues of global postsecondary professional education, this volume brings in new and in-depth aspects such as governance, capital investments, and the role of the private sector in the production of health professionals; thus allowing the reader to understand how the health worker education field has moved from theory to practice.
Contents: Foreword (Julio Frenk)Preface (Alexander S Preker, Hortenzia Beciu and Eric L Keuffel)About the EditorsAbout the ContributorsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and AcronymsList of Figures and TablesTransformative Learning in Health Education for a New Century: Interdependence in the Education of Health Professionals (Julio Frenk, Lincoln C Chen, and Catherine Michaud)Setting the Stage for Scaling Up Health Education (Hortenzia Beciu and Paul Jacob Robyn)Needs-Based Workforce Analysis for Investing in Health Education (Daniel R Arnold and Richard M Scheffler)Bridging the Gap in Medical Manpower (Brent D Fulton, Richard M Scheffler, Agnés Soucat, Marko Vujicic, and Erica Yoonkyung Auh)Better Governance and Leadership in Health Education (Peter Walker and Hortenzia Beciu)Fiscal Constraints to Investing in Health Education (Alexander S Preker, Marko Vujicic, Yohana Dukhan, Caroline Ly, Hortenzia Beciu, Peter Nicolas Materu, and Khama Rogo)Investment and Financing in Health Education (Eric L Keuffel, Alexander S Preker, and Caroline Ly)Role of the Private Sector in the Financing of Health Education (Eric L Keuffel and Alexander S Preker)Public–Private Partnerships in Financing Health Education (Taara Chandani and Ilana Ron Levey)The Market for Health Education (Howard Tuckman, Alexander S Preker, and Eric L Keuffel)Appendix: Innovations in Tertiary Education Financing: A Comparative Evaluation of Allocation Mechanisms (Jamil Salmi and Arthur M Hauptman)Author IndexSubject IndexOrganization–Place Index
Readership: Healthcare policy makers, academics teaching health financing and pedagogy, undergraduate and graduate students of healthcare policy and finance. Health Education;Health Financing;Health Systems;Health Economics00