Employing Positive Youth Development Approaches to Identify Opportunities between Educators and Employers to Promote Youth Employment in Health

Employing Positive Youth Development Approaches to Identify Opportunities between Educators and Employers to Promote Youth Employment in Health

There are 71 million unemployed youth in the world and an estimated 40 million new health jobs to be created by 2030. With our Youth Employment in Health Framework, HRH2030 has envisioned how to foster connections between technical and vocational education and training institutions and health employers to support youth and build the future health workforce.

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Adapting the health labor market (Sousa et al. 2013) and positive youth development frameworks (Hinson et al. 2016), we demonstrate optimal partnerships for engaging and preparing youth to become the future health workforce. Youth in health employment is an opportunity to achieve the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 goals and Sustainable Development Goals including ending poverty, ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education, promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all, and reducing inequality within and among countries. In addition, for women, employment in the health sector is a key contributor to women’s economic and social empowerment.

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