Designed to assist in re-establishing health services in a context of political and economic instability, this guide provides practical information and tools for rebuilding a health workforce, as well as examples from post-conflict countries.Long-term conflict, civil war, internal displacements and refugee movements, or the silent erosion of health services capacity caused by a pandemic such as HIV/AIDS, pose a tremendous challenge to restoring or maintaining a sufficiently skilled health workforce. Some factors that make this even more difficult in these circumstances are, for example, the breakdown of the educational system, trained health workers leaving the public sector to start private practice at costs so high they are inaccessible to the poor, or the migration of highly trained health workers to urban areas or abroad, or to jobs with international humanitarian agencies.This volume presents an overview of how countries emerging from years of conflict and disruption of the social fabric have tackled the sometimes thorny issues of rebuilding a health workforce. It presents strengths and pitfalls encountered. It highlights the challenges to newly emerging national authorities to bring together the still functioning elements of the national health system. It discusses the challenges to integrating a multitude of well-intentioned international agencies and contributors to post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation, and restoring population health.Human beings and their skills lie at the heart of any health system. The lessons learnt and methods documented here to address human resource planning and management in crisis situations provide answers to questions of rebuilding a workforce after conflict settlement and for long-term development. Read Less