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This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It covers the imbalance in physician deployment in Ethiopia and the lottery system for ensuring coverage in rural areas.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It details the financial issues involved in scaling up health worker training such as the cost of hiring additional staff, educating health workers and expanding training capacity. It also outlines the current and possible future sources of increasing expenditure for health worker training. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It reviews a study of how Rwanda, faced with constrained fiscal conditions, has implemented innovative reforms to create fiscal space for human resources and to make these resources more responsive to needs through an analysis of budget documents and policy and regulation changes and key informant interviews. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It talks about goverment spending policies on health worker wages and how they affect the health workforce.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It breaks down current health spending including HRH resource needs and gaps, provides a critical assessment of HRH financing by some of the top donors and addresses campaiging for adequate and sustained donor financing. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It presents five questions on the financial concerns of scaling up the number of health workers to provide adequate health care.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It describes a study to identify the level of satisfaction and intent to stay among health workers and effort to develop strategies to improve retention. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It describes a study done to analyze health worker perceptions of renumeration and determine the factors that affect the mobility of the health workforce in Burkina Faso

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the Zambia Health Workers Retention Scheme, an incentive program targeting key health worker cadres primarily in rural district to decrease attrition rates of critical service providers. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines HRH in the eastern Mediterranean region, trends in international nurse migration, and the Lebanese context. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines the Philippine’s HRH Master Plan to develop and install HHRMD systems that will support Philippine health sector reforms to improve health outcomes. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It details a study done to assess the feasibility and interest among stakeholders in the Netherlands, UK and US in facilitating recruitment and placement of foreign health care professionals to work in public sector health care in South Africa. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the situtation of rural health workers citing Mali and Madagascar as examples.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines the micro-economics of health worker behaviour and discusses a study done to evaluate migration in Ghana.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It gives definitions and frameworks, core competencies needed, examples of good practice, observations and future directions. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the need for scaled-up management and leadership training to equip healthcare professionals with the skills, experience and knowledge to manage health programs effectively and how private sector approaches to this challege offer a strategic resource to improve the management and output of health systems. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines the internal and external environmental issues for district medical officers and describes what these officers need in terms of support.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It talks about good health governance, presents a model and discusses the pupose and challenges of achieving accountability in governance.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the impact of human resource management on health and details a work climate assessment from Kenya.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the key features of the Problem-Based Learning/Community-Based Education and Service innovations to the health curricula at Makerere University, why they implemented these improvements and the benefits they have seen from the program.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses training Clinical Officers, a cadre of mid-level health professionals, as a method of filling the health worker gap in a post-conflict area.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It introduces the reasons behind the formation of the Task Force for Scaling up Education and Training of Health Workers and what it will accomplish.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses educational strategies for training health workers to scale up service delivery in Brazil.

This statement outlines guiding principles to ensure task shifting is effective.

This article discusses the challenges related to preventing the out-migration of health care workers from the developing world. Experimental policies and best practices are outlined. The authors call for new policies to be created to encourage health workers to remain at home.