Background
Despite rising attention to the acute shortage of health
care workers, solutions to the human resource (HR) crisis
are difficult to achieve, especially in the poorest countries.
Although we are aware of the issues and have developed
HR strategies, the problem is that some old systems of
leading and managing human resources for health do not
work in today's context. In these cases and others, a more
appropriate mode of leadership, linked to reforming management
systems and committed to moving beyond planning
to implementation, is essential to the solution