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Discussed from the perspective of the National Health and Strategies Plans , the analysis of student notes gaps in the structuring in connection with the performance of MH in international area. Being the first purpose of the consensual aspects among most scholars about competence, it is highlighted that the plans feature points of limitations for the development of professional competencies for those who work with the issue of global health and health diplomacy.
Two strands are presented by the student: material and cognitive resources. As for material resources it is constructed the historical profile of the bodies responsible for global health topics, and analyzed their organizational structures, funding, and interrelationships with other organs, outlining the field of action of the professional who operates in the area of international health. As for cognitive resources, it is infered, from the data presented, the areas of knowledge required for the development of professional skills in the area of international health.
The research presents the evolution of the issue of the health workforce (FTS) from the involvement of international organizations with the issue, especially the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (Paho). Then, after consideration of the definitions of what FTS is, it proposes a perspective of professional insertion in that scope.
Gaudêncio explains that international health fora, fora in which health is issue or on which the decisions may directly affect health, and also within the framework of regional associations of blocks of countries, and bilateral and triangular cooperation are contexts of action whose discussion is preceded by the Brazil´s historic character in the participation in discussions on the global health theme since the first international health conferences.
Sérgio Alexandre Gaudêncio is specialist in International Relations of the Ministry of Health since 2011, with specialization in International Health and Diplomacy by ENSP (2009), and in Public Policy and Strategic Management of Health, also by ENSP (2006). His dissertation, entitled Contexts for the definition of occupational skills to those who act in the international health area was presented in 26/8, at Fiocruz Brasilia.