Pros And Cons Of Meeting Health-Care Needs

Introduction: According to the World Health Organisations, "The health professionals maintain health in humans through the application of evidence based medicine and caring. Health professionals study, diagnose, treat and prevent human illness, injuries and other physical and mental impairments in accordance with the needs of the population they serve. They advice on or apply preventive and curative measures, and promote health with the ultimate goal of meeting the health needs and the expectations of the individuals and populations, and improving population health outcomes. They also conduct research and improve or develop concepts, theories and operational methods to advance evidence-based health care." Looming of fresh health challenges: …show more content…
TRANSFORMING HEALTH PROFESSIONS' EDUCATION- A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH Concerted and immediate efforts to transform and scale up health professions' education has now become crucial to respond to the ever changingand evolving needs of the population around the world. A mere increase in the number of health professionals would not suffice. It is necessary to ensure that they have knowledge and more importantly the skills and competancies to address the health-care needs of the community. The report by ____ "Assessing future health workforce needs" states that future needs are not expressed only in numbers, dimensions of work environment, such as the dimensions of work environment, such as the division ( skills mix) and organisation of labour, conpetancies working conditions, productivity and quality targets are critical variables. Analysis of the current situation of health workforce insufficiency and crisis threw light on the following realities: 1 The health profession has taken a new dimension turning into a profit oriented profession with the lacking of enthusiasm for public health careers. 2. The medical curriculum being linked to the tertiary health system leaves the students