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Sustainable scaling up of good quality health worker education for tuberculosis control in Indonesia: a case studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The strategic decision by the NTP in 2000 to put the highest priority on capacity building has resulted in impressive progress towards TB control targets, a progress that despite many challenges has been sustained. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - November 16, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Carmelia BasriKarin BergstromWanda WaltonJan VoskensAsik SuryaFirdosi Metha Source Type: journals

International flow of Zambian nursesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This commentary paper highlights changing patterns of outward migration of Zambian nurses. The aim is to discuss these pattern changes in the light of policy developments in Zambia and in receiving countries.Prior to 2000, South Africa was the most important destination for Zambian registered nurses. In 2000, new destination countries, such as the United Kingdom, became available, resulting in a substantial increase in migration from Zambia. This is attributable to the policy of active recruitment by the United Kingdom's National Health Service and Zambia's policy of offering Voluntary Separation Packages: early retirement...
Source: Human Resources for Health - November 11, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Naomi HamadaJill MabenBarbara McPakeKara Hanson Source Type: journals

Ageing medical workforce in Australia - where will the medical educators come from?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: As the general practitioner and specialist medical workforce ages there is likely to be a large number of retirees in the near future. However, few Australian studies have specifically examined medical practitioner retirement and projected retirement patterns, and the subsequent impact this may have on training future health care professionals. Methods: Extracts from the Australian Medicare database and Medical Labour Force Surveys are used to examine trends in attrition of general medical practitioners and specialists over the age of 45 years from the workforce and to predict their rate of retirement to 2025. ...
Source: Human Resources for Health - November 5, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Deborah SchofieldSusan FletcherEmily Callander Source Type: journals

Are vaccination programmes delivered by lay health workers cost-effective? A systematic reviewEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The included studies suggest that conventional economic evaluations, particularly cost-effectiveness analyses, generally focus too narrowly on health outcomes, especially in the context of vaccination promotion and delivery at the primary health care level by LHWs. Further studies on the costs and cost-effectiveness of vaccination programmes involving LHWs should be conducted, and these studies should adopt a broader and more holistic approach. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - November 3, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Adrijana CorlukaDamian WalkerSimon LewinClaire GlentonInger Scheel Source Type: journals

Developing capacity in health informatics in a resource poor setting: lessons from PeruEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The public sectors of developing countries require strengthened capacity in health informatics. In Peru, where formal university graduate degrees in biomedical and health informatics were lacking until recently, the AMAUTA Global Informatics Research and Training Program has provided research and training for health professionals in the region since 1999. The Fogarty International Center supports the program as a collaborative partnership between Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru and the University of Washington in the United States of America. The program aims to train core professionals in health informatics a...
Source: Human Resources for Health - October 27, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Ann Marie KimballWalter CuriosoYuzo ArimaSherrilynne FullerPatricia GarciaJose Segovia-JuarezJesus CastagnettoFabiola Leon-VelardeKing Holmes Source Type: journals

Contracting private sector providers for public sector health services in Jalisco, Mexico: perspectives of system actorsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Perspectives of the two main groups of actors in Jalisco's contracting model are important in the design and adjustment of an adequate contracting model that includes managerial elements to give incentives to worker performance, a key element necessary to achieve the model's ultimate objectives. Lessons learnt from this study could be relevant for the experience of contracting models in other developing countries. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - October 21, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Gustavo NigendaLuz Maria Gonzalez Source Type: journals

The role of nurses and midwives in polio eradication and measles control activities: a survey in Sudan and ZambiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: This study shows that nurses and midwives play an important role in implementing immunization activities at the district level and that their roles can be maximized by creating opportunities that lead to their having more responsibilities in their work and in particular, their involvement in early phases of planning of priority health activities. This should be accompanied by written job descriptions, tasks and clear lines of authority as well as good supportive supervision. The lessons from supplementary immunization activities, where the roles of nurses and midwives are maximized, can be easily adopted to be...
Source: Human Resources for Health - September 7, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Annette Mwansa NkowaneLiliane BoualamSalah HaithamiEl Tayeb Ahmed El SayedHelen Mutambo Source Type: journals

Improving pneumonia case-management in Benin: a randomized trial of a multi-faceted intervention to support health worker adherence to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelinesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness training was useful, but insufficient, to achieve high-quality pneumonia case management. Our study supports led to additional improvements, although large gaps in performance still remained. A simple graphical pathway analysis can identify specific, common errors that health workers make in the case-management process; this information could be used to target quality improvement activities, such as supervision (ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT00510679). (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 26, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Dawn OsterholtFaustin OnikpoMarcel LamaMichael DemingAlexander Rowe Source Type: journals

Improving pneumonia case management in Benin: a randomized trial of a multifaceted intervention to support health worker adherence to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelinesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness training was useful, but insufficient, to achieve high-quality pneumonia case management. Our study supports led to additional improvements, although large gaps in performance still remained. A simple graphical pathway analysis can identify specific, common errors that health workers make in the case-management process; this information could be used to target quality improvement activities, such as supervision (ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT00510679). (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 26, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Dawn OsterholtFaustin OnikpoMarcel LamaMichael DemingAlexander Rowe Source Type: journals

Training needs assessment for clinicians at antiretroviral therapy clinics: evidence from a national survey in UgandaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study sought to identify task shifting that has already occurred and assess the antiretroviral therapy training needs among clinicians to whom tasks have shifted. Methods: The Infectious Diseases Institute, in collaboration with the Ugandan Ministry of Health, surveyed health professionals and heads of antiretroviral therapy clinics at a stratified random sample of 44 health facilities accredited to provide this therapy. A sample of 265 doctors, clinical officers, nurses and midwives reported on tasks they performed, previous human immunodeficiency virus training, and self-assessment of knowledge of human immunodefici...
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 22, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Ibrahim LutaloGisela SchneiderMarcia WeaverJessica OyugiLydia Mpanga SebuyiraRichard KayeFrank LuleElizabeth NamagalaW. ScheldKeith McAdamMerle Sande Source Type: journals

The distribution and transitions of physicians in Japan: a 1974-2004 retrospective cohort studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The government should focus primarily on changing the physician fee schedule, with careful consideration of the balance between office-based physicians and hospital-based physicians and among specialties. To implement effective policies in managing health care human resources, policy-makers should also pay attention to continuously monitoring physicians' practising status and career motivations; and national consensus is needed regarding the number of physicians required in each type of facility and specialty as well as region. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 13, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Hiroo IdeSoichi KoikeTomoko KodamaHideo YasunagaTomoaki Imamura Source Type: journals

Challenges at work and financial rewards to stimulate longer workforce participationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Based on the findings, it was concluded that measures that promote challenges at work, together with financial stimuli, seem to be promising in order to prolong workforce participation. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 10, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Karin ProperDorly DeegAllard van der Beek Source Type: journals

A model for integrating strategic planning and competence-based curriculum design in establishing a public health programme: the UNC Charlotte experienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The efforts reported here can be informative to other institutions by exemplifying an integrated top-down/bottom-up process of strategic planning that ensures that a department's degree programmes meet current needs and that students graduate with the competences to address those needs. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 10, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Michael ThompsonAndrew HarverMarquis Eure Source Type: journals

Alexithymia and its association with burnout, depression and family support among Greek nursing staffEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: In the scientific literature there is a debate as to whether alexithymia is a stable personality characteristic or if it is dependent on symptoms of mental disorders. We tried to interpret the associations of alexithymia with professional burnout, depressive symptoms and family support. From this study it appears very likely that alexithymia is directly associated with depression and personal achievement, but also - indirectly - with the sense of family support. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 10, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Dionisios BratisAthanasios TselebisChristos SikarasAikaterini MoulouKonstantinos GiotakisEmmanuel ZoumakisIoannis Ilias Source Type: journals

Increasing leadership capacity for HIV/AIDS programmes by strengthening public health epidemiology and management training in ZimbabweEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Investment of a modest proportion of new HIV/AIDS resources in targeted public health leadership training programmes can assist in building capacity to lead and manage national HIV and other public health programmes. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 9, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Donna JonesMufuta TshimangaGodfrey WoelkPeter NsubugaNadine SunderlandShannon HaderMichael St. Louis Source Type: journals

Equity-oriented toolkit for health technology assessment and knowledge translation: application to scaling up of training and education for health workersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Human resources for health are in crisis worldwide, especially in economically disadvantaged areas and areas with high rates of HIV/AIDS in both health workers and patients. International organizations such as the Global Health Workforce Alliance have been established to address this crisis. A technical working group within the Global Health Workforce Alliance developed recommendations for scaling up education and training of health workers. The paper will illustrate how decision-makers can use evidence and tools from an equity-oriented toolkit to scale up training and education of health workers, following five recommenda...
Source: Human Resources for Health - August 4, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Erin UeffingPeter TugwellJanet Hatcher RobertsPeter WalkerNadia HamelVivian Welch Source Type: journals

Sending money home: a mixed-methods study of remittances sent by migrant nurses in IrelandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: This paper provides insights into the importance of remittances in funding social support for family members in home countries. It also illustrates the sacrifices made by migrant nurses to ensure continuation of the remittances, particularly in the context of an economic recession. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 29, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Niamh HumphriesRuairi BrughaHannah McGee Source Type: journals

Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district managementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: A strong human resource management function operating at the district level is likely to improve worker motivation and performance. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 27, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Ogenna ManafaEilish McauliffeFresier MasekoCameron BowieMalcolm MacLachlanCharles Normand Source Type: journals

Addressing gaps in surgical skills training by means of low-cost simulation at Muhimbili University in TanzaniaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Simulation is valued to gain experience in practising surgical skills prior to working with patients. In the context of resource-limited settings, an additional benefit is that of learning skills not otherwise obtainable. Further testing of this approach will determine its applicability to other resource-limited settings seeking to develop skill-based surgical and emergency procedure apprenticeships. Additionally, skill sustainability and readiness for actual surgical and emergency experiences need to be assessed. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 26, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Stephanie TacheNaboth MbembatiNell MarshallFrank TendickCharles MkonyPatricia O'Sullivan Source Type: journals

A review of the application and contribution of Discrete Choice Experiments to inform human resources policy interventionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although the factors influencing the shortage and maldistribution of health workers have been well-documented by cross-sectional surveys, there is less evidence on the relative determinants of health workers' job choices, or on the effects of policies designed to address these human resources problems. Recently, a few studies have adopted an innovative approach to studying the determinants of health workers' job preferences. In the absence of longitudinal datasets to analyse the decisions that health workers have actually made, authors have drawn on methods from marketing research and transport economics and used Discrete ...
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 23, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Mylene LagardeDuane Blaauw Source Type: journals

Systematic inclusion of mandatory interprofessional education in health professions curricula at Gunma University: a report of student self-assessment in a nine-year implementationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The present four subscales measure "understanding", and may take into account the development of interprofessional education programmes with clinical training in various facilities. The content and quality of clinical training subjects may be remarkably dependent on training facilities, suggesting the importance of full consultation mechanisms in the local network with the relevant educational institutes for medicine, health care and welfare. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 22, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Hatsue OgawaraTomoko HayashiYasuyoshi AsakawaKiyotaka IwasakiTamiko MatsudaYumiko AbeFusae TozatoTakatoshi MakinoMisako KoizumiTakako YasukawaHideomi Watanabe Source Type: journals

Improving obstetric care in low-resource settings: implementation of facility-based maternal death reviews in five pilot hospitals in SenegalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The identification of the barriers to and the facilitators of the implementation of maternal death reviews is an essential step for the future adaptation of this method in countries with few resources. We recommend for future implementation of this method a prior enhancement of the perinatal information system and initial training of the members of the audit committee - particularly the data collector and the head of the maternity unit. Local leadership is essential to promote, initiate and monitor the audit process in the health facilities. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 22, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Alexandre DumontCaroline TourignyPierre Fournier Source Type: journals

Knowledge and communication needs assessment of community health workers in a developing country: a qualitative studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: A continued process should be ensured to provide opportunities to health workers to update their knowledge, sharpen communication skills and bring credibility to their persona as health educators. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 20, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Zaeem HaqAssad Hafeez Source Type: journals

Empowering health personnel for decentralized health planning in India: The Public Health Resource NetworkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Public Health Resource Network is an innovative distance-learning course in training, motivating, empowering and building a network of health personnel from government and civil society groups. Its aim is to build human resource capacity for strengthening decentralized health planning, especially at the district level, to improve accountability of health systems, elicit community participation for health, ensure equitable and accessible health facilities and to bring about convergence in programmes and services.The question confronting health systems in India is how best to reform, revitalize and resource primary healt...
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 19, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Anuska KalitaSarover ZaidiVandana PrasadV.r. Raman Source Type: journals

The role of pharmacists in developing countries: the current scenario in PakistanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
During the past few years, the pharmacy profession has expanded significantly in terms of professional services delivery and now has been recognized as an important profession in the multidisciplinary provision of health care. In contrast to the situation in developed countries, pharmacists in developing countries are still underutilized and their role as health care professionals is not deemed important by either the community or other health care providers. The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of pharmacists in developing countries, particularly in Pakistan. The paper draws on the literature related to the soci...
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 12, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Saira AzharMohamed Azmi HassaliMohamed Izham Mohamed IbrahimMaqsood AhmadImran MasoodAsrul Akmal Shafie Source Type: journals

Burnout and use of HIV services among health care workers in Lusaka District, Zambia: a cross-sectional studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: In Lusaka primary care clinics, overwork, illness and death were common reasons for attrition. Programmes to improve access, acceptability and confidentiality of health care services for clinical providers and to reduce workplace stress could substantially affect workforce stability. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 12, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Gina KruseBushimbwa ChapulaScott IkedaMavis NkhomaNicole QuiterioDebra PankratzKaluba MatakaBenjamin ChiVirginia BondStewart Reid Source Type: journals

Employment and sociodemographic characteristics: a study of increasing precarity in the health districts of Belo Horizonte, BrazilEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: It is a plausible supposition that the demand for health reforms, along with the legal limits imposed on financial expenditure, gave rise to the new types of contract and the present employment situation in the health districts in Belo Horizonte. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - July 12, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Maria CoelhoAda AssuncaoSoraya Belisario Source Type: journals

Understanding informal payments in health care: motivation of health workers in TanzaniaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: This study suggests that the practice of informal payments contributes to the general demotivation of health workers and negatively affects access to health care services and quality of the health system. Policy action is needed that not only provides better financial incentives for individuals but also tackles an environment in which corruption is endemic. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - June 29, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Silvia StringhiniSteve ThomasPosy BidwellTina MtuiAziza Mwisongo Source Type: journals

Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas: seven management functionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In many countries worldwide, health worker shortages are one of the main constraints in achieving population health goals. Financial-incentive programmes for return of service, whereby participants receive payments in return for a commitment to practise for a period of time in a medically underserved area, can alleviate local and regional health worker shortages through a number of mechanisms. First, they can redirect the flow of those health workers who would have been educated without financial incentives from well-served to underserved areas. Second, they can add health workers to the pool of workers who would have been...
Source: Human Resources for Health - June 25, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Till BarnighausenDavid Bloom Source Type: journals

Conflicting priorities: evaluation of an intervention to improve nurse-parent relationships on a Tanzanian paediatric wardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The intended outcome of the intervention was not met. The priorities of the intervention - to improve nurse-parent relationships - did not match the priorities of the nursing staff. Development of awareness and empathy was not enough to provide care that was satisfactory to clients in the context of working conditions that were unsatisfactory to nurses. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - June 22, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Rachel ManongiFortunata NasuwaRose MwangiHugh ReyburnAnja PoulsenClare Chandler Source Type: journals

Task shifting: the answer to the human resources crisis in Africa?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ever since the 2006 World health report advocated increased community participation and the systematic delegation of tasks to less-specialized cadres, there has been a great deal of debate about the expediency, efficacy and modalities of task shifting.The delegation of tasks from one cadre to another, previously often called substitution, is not a new concept. It has been used in many countries and for many decades, either as a response to emergency needs or as a method to provide adequate care at primary and secondary levels, especially in understaffed rural facilities, to enhance quality and reduce costs. However, rapidl...
Source: Human Resources for Health - June 20, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Uta LehmannWim Van DammeFrancoise BartenDavid Sanders Source Type: journals

The global pharmacy workforce: a systematic review of the literatureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The importance of health workforce provision has gained significance and is now considered one of the most pressing issues worldwide, across all health professions. Against this background, the objectives of the work presented here were to systematically explore and identify contemporary issues surrounding expansion of the global pharmacy workforce in order to assist the International Pharmaceutical Federation working group on the workforce.International peer and non-peer-reviewed literature published between January 1998 and February 2008 was analysed. Articles were collated by performing searches of appropriate databases...
Source: Human Resources for Health - June 18, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Nicola HawthorneClaire Anderson Source Type: journals

Health workforce development planning in the Sultanate of Oman: a case studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Oman's experience in workforce planning and development presents an illustration of a country benefiting from successful application of workforce planning concepts and tools. Instead of being complacent about its achievements so far, every country needs to improve or sustain its planning efforts in this way, in order to circumvent the current workforce deficiencies and to further increase self-reliance and improve workforce efficiency and effectiveness. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - June 10, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Basu Ghosh Source Type: journals

The WHO UNESCO FIP Pharmacy Education TaskforceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pharmacists' roles are evolving from that of compounders and dispensers of medicines to that of experts on medicines within multidisciplinary health care teams. In the developing country context, the pharmacy is often the most accessible or even the sole point of access to health care advice and services.Because of their knowledge of medicines and clinical therapeutics, pharmacists are suitably placed for task shifting in health care and could be further trained to undertake functions such as clinical management and laboratory diagnostics. Indeed, pharmacists have been shown to be willing, competent, and cost-effective pro...
Source: Human Resources for Health - June 5, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Claire AndersonIan BatesDiane BeckTina BrockBilly FutterHugo MercerMike RouseSarah WhitmarshTana WulijiAkemi Yonemura Source Type: journals

A cross-country review of strategies of the German Development Cooperation to strengthen human resourcesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The country case studies illustrate the range of initiatives that have surged in recent years and some main trends in terms of donor initiatives. Though attention and priority attributed to human resources for health is increasing, there is still a focus on single initiatives and programmes. This can be explained in part by the complexity of the issue, and in part by its need to be addressed through a long-term approach including public sector and salary reforms that go beyond the health sector. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - June 5, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Ricarda WindischKaspar WyssHelen Prytherch Source Type: journals

Narrowing the gap between eye care needs and service provision: a model to dynamically regulate the flow of personnel through a multiple entry and exit training programmeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: The purpose of this paper is to present a complex yet transparent, computable model to simulate the regulation of the flow of personnel through a previously described multiple-entry, multiple-exit eye care training scheme linked to the health workforce. This methodology should be a useful tool for the planner; it can address changes and feedbacks over time and be sensitive to any unexpected consequences of the interactions. The same model template can be applied to calculate the finances associated with the personnel flow.Presentation of the hypothesisThe worth of any model or set of concepts of human resources...
Source: Human Resources for Health - May 29, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Keith Masnick Source Type: journals

Experience with a "social model" of capacity building: the Peoples-uniEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: A social model of capacity building in public health has been started and has been able to attract volunteers and students from a wide range of countries. The costs are likely to be low enough to allow this method to make a substantial contribution to capacity building in low-income settings. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - May 29, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Richard Heller Source Type: journals

Does type of hospital ownership influence physicians' daily work schedules? An observational real-time study in German hospital departmentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: This is the first real-time analysis on differences in work activities depending on hospital ownership. The study provides an objective insight into physicians` daily work routines at hospitals of different ownership, with additional information on effects of hospital privatization. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - May 27, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Stefanie MacheCristian ScutaruKarin VitzthumDavid QuarcooNorman SchoffelTobias WelteBurghard KlappDavid Groneberg Source Type: journals

Health workers' views on quality of prevention of mother-to-child transmission and postnatal care for HIV-infected women and their childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Many hospital staff were not being able to provide good care or were even unwilling to provide appropriate care for HIV-positive pregnant women. The study suggests that the quality of prevention of mother-to-child transmission service could be enhanced by improving communication and other skills of health workers, providing them with greater support and enhancing their motivation. Reduction of workload would also be important. Development of a practical strategy is needed to strengthen and adapt the referral system to meet the needs of patients. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - May 13, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Thu Anh Nguyen, Pauline Oosterhoff, Yen Pham Ngoc, Anita Hardon and Pamela Wright Source Type: journals

An assessment of the eye care workforce in Enugu State, south-eastern NigeriaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Using broad and crude World Health Organization standards for minimum provider-to-population ratios, there is a sufficient eye care workforce in Enugu Urban. However, the maldistribution of the workforce creates a major barrier to uptake of eye care services. Policy modifications could reverse this maldistribution. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - May 12, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Boniface IKENNA Eze and Ferdinand CHINEDU Maduka-Okafor Source Type: journals

Evidence-based practice in neonatal health: knowledge among primary health care staff in northern Viet NamEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: We have identified a complex pattern of associations between knowledge, geography, demographic factors and neonatal outcomes. Primary health care staff knowledge regarding neonatal health is scarce. This is a factor that is possible to influence and should be considered in future efforts for improving the neonatal health situation in Viet Nam. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 24, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Leif Eriksson, Nguyen Thu Nga, Mats Malqvist, Lars-Ake Persson, Uwe Ewald and Lars Wallin Source Type: journals

Internationally recruited nurses from India and the Philippines in the United Kingdom: the decision to emigrateEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: This study shows the diverse motivations of nurses from different countries and with different migratory backgrounds and provides evidence that factors other than economic factors influence nurses' decision to emigrate. This information can help developing countries increase retention of this essential and often scarce resource and can also help the United Kingdom's National Health Service to improve the experience of internationally recruited nurses and therefore increase their retention in the United Kingdom. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 24, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo and Jill Maben Source Type: journals

Narrowing the gap between eye care needs and service provision: the service-training nexusEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The underlying principles used to derive this model can be applied to many eye care systems in many developing countries. The model can be used in other disciplines with similar constructs to eye care. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 23, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Keith Masnick Source Type: journals

A cost-effectiveness study of caesarean-section deliveries by clinical officers, general practitioners and obstetricians in Burkina FasoEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Training substitutes is a viable option to increase access to life-saving operations in district hospitals. The high newborn case fatality rate among clinical officers could be addressed by a refresher course and closer supervision. These findings may assist in addressing supply shortages of skilled health personnel in sub-Saharan Africa. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 16, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Sennen H Hounton, David Newlands, Nicolas Meda and Vincent De Brouwere Source Type: journals

Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from experience - Capitalizing on new opportunitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article investigates whether present community health worker programmes for antiretroviral treatment are taking into account the lessons learnt from past experiences with community health worker programmes in primary health care and to what extent they are seizing the new antiretroviral treatment-specific opportunities. Based on a desk review of multi-purpose community health worker programmes for primary health care and of recent experiences with antiretroviral treatment-related community health workers, we developed an analytic framework of 10 criteria: eight conditions for successful large-scale antiretroviral trea...
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 9, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Katharina Hermann, Wim Van Damme, George W Pariyo, Erik Schouten, Yibeltal Assefa, Anna Cirera and William Massavon Source Type: journals

Migration as a form of workforce attrition: a nine-country study of pharmacistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Given the influence of the country context and environment on migration intentions, research and policy should frame the issue of migration in the context of the wider human resource agenda, thus viewing migration as one form of attrition and a symptom of other root causes. Remuneration is not an independent stand-alone factor influencing migration intentions and cannot be decoupled from professional development factors. Comprehensive human resource policy development that takes into account the issues of both remuneration and professional development are necessary to encourage retention. (Source: Human Resources for Health)
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 9, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Tana Wuliji, Sarah Carter and Ian Bates Source Type: journals

Does a code make a difference - assessing the English code of practice on international recruitmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Active international recruitment of health professionals was an explicit policy intervention by the Department of Health in England, as one key element in achieving rapid staffing growth, particularly in the period 2000 to 2005, but the level of international recruitment has dropped significantly since early 2006. Regulatory and education changes in the United Kingdom in recent years have also made international entry more difficult. The potential to assess the effect of the Code in England is constrained by the limitations in available databases. This is a crucial lesson for those considering a global code: ...
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 9, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: James Buchan, Barbara McPake, Kwawdo Mensah and George Rae Source Type: journals

Building capacity without disrupting health services: public health education for Africa through distance learningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The human resources crisis in Africa is especially acute in the public health field. Through distance education, the School of Public Health of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, has provided access to master's level public health education for health professionals from more than 20 African countries while they remain in post. Since 2000, interest has increased overwhelmingly to a point where four times more applications are received than can be accommodated. This home-grown programme remains sensitive to the needs of the target learners while engaging them in high-quality learning applied in their own work ...
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 1, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Alexander, Ehi Uche Igumbor and David Sanders Source Type: journals

Tracking working status of HIV/AIDS-trained service providers by means of a Training Information Monitoring System in EthiopiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Overall, the project found that the information in the Training Information Monitoring System can be used to track the working status of trained providers. Data generated from the project are being shared with key stakeholders and used for planning and monitoring the workforce, and partners have agreed to continue collecting data. The attrition rates found in this project imply an increased need to continue to conduct in-service training for HIV/AIDS in the short term. For long-term solutions, retention strategies should be developed and implemented, and opportunities to accelerate the incorporation of HIV/AID...
Source: Human Resources for Health - April 1, 2009 Category: Health Management Authors: Marion E McNabb, Cynthia A Hiner, Anne Pfitzer, Yassir Abduljewad, Mesrak Nadew, Petros Faltamo and Jean Anderson Source Type: journals