Overview
The Health Labour Market Analysis (HLMA) was undertaken to understand the health workforce situation in Tajikistan to inform the development of a National Health Workforce Action Plan that will contain key policies to improve the availability of health workers to provide quality health care. To guide the analysis, three policy questions were identified through a consultative process led by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and supported by WHO. The questions related to 1) the availability of health workers in primary health care and ways to attract health workers at primary health care level, 2) the situation and quality of postgraduate medical specialty programme and 3) situation and quality of nursing education. The findings and policy considerations emerging out of the analysis were validated by the Technical Working Group on Health Labour Market Analysis under the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population, Tajikistan. This analysis is being used by the Ministry of Health in evidence-based planning for retention and recruitment of the primary health care workforce, improvements in medical and nursing education, and higher investments in the health workforce.
