The strategic directions for strengthening nursing and midwifery services developed by WHO and its partners provide an overarching framework for collaborative action to the common goal enshrined in its vision: improved health outcomes for individuals, families and communities through the provision of competent, culturally sensitive, evidence based nursing and midwifery services.
The main strategic areas are: strengthening of health systems and services; nursing and midwifery policy and practice; education, training and career development; nnursing and midwifery workforce management; and ppartnership for nursing and midwifery services.
These areas provide a framework for WHO action to support countries in improving the quality of nursing and midwifery services, and a possible guide for action at national levels.
A strategy for nursing and midwifery development in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 1.42Mb]
Strategic directions for strengthening nursing and midwifery services 2011-2015 [pdf 1.22Mb]
Regional committee resolutions
EM/RC55/R.5
Promoting nursing and midwifery development in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 20.61kb] | Technical paper [pdf 130.57kb]
EM/RC45/R.12
Improving the quality of nursing and midwifery in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 22.47kb] | Technical paper [pdf 422kb]
EM/RC41/R.10
The need for national planning for nursing and midwifery in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 31.48kb] | Technical paper [pdf 1.97Mb]
World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions
WHA64.7
Strengthening nursing and midwifery [pdf 18.60kb]
WHA59.27
Strengthening nursing and midwifery [pdf 197kb]
WHA54.12
Strengthening nursing and midwifery [pdf 11kb]
EB107.R2
Strengthening nursing and midwifery [pdf 11kb]
WHA49.1
Strengthening nursing and midwifery [pdf 66kb]
WHA45.5
Strengthening nursing and midwifery in support of strategies for health for all [pdf 11kb]
WHA42.27
Strengthening nursing and midwifery in support of strategies for health for all [pdf 11kb]
WHA36.11
WHA30.48
The role of nursing/midwifery personnel in primary health care [pdf 11kb]
