Open AccessHuman resource capacity building initiatives for public health laboratories in India
Author(s) -
Anuja Pandey,
Sanjay Zodpey,
Sunanda Shrikhande,
Anjali Sharma
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/0019-557x.146275
Subject(s) - public health , scarcity , capacity building , human resources , resource (disambiguation) , business , environmental health , environmental resource management , medicine , economic growth , political science , computer science , nursing , economics , computer network , law , microeconomics
Public health laboratories play a critical role in disease surveillance and response. With changes in disease dynamics and transmission, their role has evolved over time, and they serve a range of important public health functions. For their effective functioning, it is important to have specialized manpower in these laboratories, which can contribute to their maximum utilization. The present manuscript is an attempt to explore the human resource capacity building initiatives for public health laboratories in India. Using three parallel methods we have attempted to gather information regarding various human resource capacity building initiatives for public health laboratories in India. Our study results show that there is a paucity of programs providing specialized training for human resources in public health laboratories in India. It highlights the urgent need to address this scarcity and introduce capacity building measures to generate human resources for public health laboratories to strengthen their role in public health action.