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WHO World Health Report 2006

What is the theme of the WHO World Health Report 2006? Working together for Health: Health workforce, its global distribution, regional shortages and challenges, proposals to tackle shortage crises, action plan and policies for improvement

What are the two WHO regions with high health expenditure, a high share of global workforce and low relative global burden of disease?  Americas and Europe

How did WHO classify/define shortage in the health workforce? the WHO computed the density of the health workforce on country levels. An entire country was defined as in shortage if this density was below a threshold. This threshold was defined as 2.3 health workers per 1,000 population.

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Health System

WHO World Health Report 2006

What is the theme of the WHO World Health Report 2006? Working together for Health: Health workforce, its global distribution, regional shortages and challenges, proposals to tackle shortage crises, action plan and policies for improvement

What are the two WHO regions with high health expenditure, a high share of global workforce and low relative global burden of disease?  Americas and Europe

How did WHO classify/define shortage in the health workforce? the WHO computed the density of the health workforce on country levels. An entire country was defined as in shortage if this density was below a threshold. This threshold was defined as 2.3 health workers per 1,000 population.