These processes include aligning training with national health goals and priorities, accelerating the training and rapid deployment of health workers, creating and deploying new health worker categories, shifting or redistributing tasks among existing categories or to new categories, and developing fast-track bridging programmes to advance health workers to positions in higher-priority categories.
In fact, approaches that address health workers' shortage mainly focus on production, recruitment and deployment of health workers in remote areas.
"This mechanism will facilitate the effective distribution of assistance from the international community, including the expeditious and effective deployment of relief workers, especially health and medical personnel".
The Philippines has ordered a ban on the deployment of its workers to 41 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq and India.
Workload standards are important to determine underemployment and appropriate distribution and deployment of health workers.
However, these interventions require deployment of health workers with adequate knowledge in maternal, child and newborn health [ 9].
Moreover, the Public Service Standing Orders for Uganda suggests regular deployment of health workers across different units and different levels of care [ 22].
The ability of a country to achieve universal health coverage depends largely on the motivation and deployment of health workers who are responsible for delivering health services [ 2].
Health sector employees are often part of the civil service, and so civil service reform has an impact on the employment and deployment of health workers.
