To improve population health and meet the challenges of the health related MDGs, fundamental reforms are required in both undergraduate and post-graduate education and training systems and institutions. There is a need to increase the numbers of adequately trained health professionals and to ensure that their training can address the country's health needs. Furthermore governments need to ensure that they are equitably distributed in urban, rural and remote areas and health services, from primary to tertiary levels, to provide high-quality care.
This radical transformation of health professional education puts population health needs and expectations at the centre of care and uses population health outcomes as crucial measures to assess the success of the educational process. Isolated improvements in individual educational institutions or narrowly defined health sector reforms will not be enough. The efforts of national education and health ministries will only be effective with simultaneous engagement of educational institutions, private sector providers, professional associations, civil society and communities. The WHO Secretariat is working with civil society to obtain their views on how civil society sees its role.
To this end, we would sincerely appreciate your participation in the following survey which is voluntary and anonymous. Please complete the ratings based on your current professional capacity and taking into account your specific/local context.
Your responses will be used to develop a report which will be taken to the Southern Civil Society meeting in Abuja, Nigeria in February or March 2012 and will be used as the basis for planning how CSOs and WHO can work together to implement this initiative from 2012 onwards. We therefore request that you submit your responses no later than 23rd January 2012. Thank you for your time!