Final call for papers: "Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers"

？ American Journal of Public Health http://www.ajph.org webcite？ Archives of Iranian Medicine http://www.ams.ac.ir/AIM/index.html webcite？ Croatian Medical Journal http://www.cmj.hr webcite？ Education for Health http://www.educationforhealth.net webcite？ International Nursing Review http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/inr webcite？ Leadership in Health Services http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/211 webcite？ Journal of the Brazilian Association of Medical Schools？ New Zealand Medical Journal http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal webcite？ Nursing Ethics http://www.sagepub.co.uk webcite？ Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing http://www.uff.br/objnursing webcite？ Open Medicine http://www.openmedicine.ca webcite？ Papua New Guinea Medical Journal http://www.pngimr.org.pg/medicaljournals.htm webcite？ PLoS Medicine http://www.plosmedicine.org webcite？ Progress in Community Health Partnerships http://pchp.press.jhu.edu webcite？ Public Health http://intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/pubh/ webcite？ South African Medical Journal http://www.journals.co.za/sama/m_samj.html webcite？ Sudanese Journal of Public Health http://www.sjph.net.sd webciteWHO Human Resources for Health are leading an international joint special issue which is now accepting papers for joint special issues addressing the critical need for a skilled, sustainable health workforce in the developing world. Submitted articles must fall under the broad theme:"Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers"The World Health Report 2006: Working together for health, recognized the centrality of the health workforce for the effective operation of country health systems and outlined proposals to tackle a global shortage of 4.3 million health workers. There is increasing evidence that that this shortage is interfering with efforts to achieve international development goals, including those contained in the Millenium Declaration and those of WHO's priority programmes.The health workforce crisis in developin