Health services sector
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Yet, the affordability of health care challenges most countries. The global shortages and unequal distribution of qualified health personnel are a major constraint in providing universal access to health care. Wide-spread reforms of health systems are continuously changing the employment environment for health care workers.
Decent work for health workers is essential to provide quality health care. Health services are unique and complex work environments with inherent opportunities and challenges. The ILO supports improvement of working conditions and labour relations in the health sector through sectoral labour standards and social dialogue, and collaborates with World Health Organization (WHO) to promote supportive, enabling and healthy work environments for the health workforce.
What's new
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Jobs for peace and resilience
COVID-19 is a threat to peacebuilding in conflict-affected nations
17 December 2020
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Annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank
ILO: The world economy needs a new engine of economic recovery
16 October 2020
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World Patient Safety Day
Safe health workers, safe patients
17 September 2020
Highlights
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Tripartite Technical Workshop
ILO Tripartite technical workshop for the SADC region on Investing in the health workforce: employment and decent work in the health sector
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ILO 100
The future of work in the health sector
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Public Emergency Services
Emergencies should be no barrier to decent work
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Health Workforce
WHO, ILO and OECD sign a MoU operationalizing the Working for Health Multi-Partner Trust Fund
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Sectoral meeting
Tripartite Meeting on Improving Employment and Working Conditions in Health Services
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Health workforce
High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth
