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Achieving the Twin Objectives of Efficiency and Equity: Contracting Health Services in Cambodia
The Cambodian experience of contracting out for health workers discussed in this document suggests how a move away from the traditional government-provided health services model to government-financed and monitored contracts for health services can be an effective approach to expand coverage especially for the low-income groups. [adapted from author]
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Economic Evaluation of a Task-Shifting Intervention for Common Mental Disorders in India
The present study evaluates the cost–effectiveness and cost–utility of a trial task shifting approach to mental health services with the hope that the additional resources needed to train, pay and supervise the lay health workers used in the task-shifting approach to the primary care of common mental disorders would promote recovery and reduced disability in a more cost–effective manner than more conventional care. [adapted from author]
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Effects of Changes in the Pre-Licensure Education of Health Workers on Health Worker Supply (Review)
This review evaluates the available literature to assess the effect of changes in the pre-licensure education of health professionals on health-worker supply. [adapted from abstract]
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Improving Primary Care in British Columbia, Canada: Evaluation of a Peer-to-Peer Continuing Education Program for Family Physicians
This study evaluated participant satisfaction of an interactive educational program that offers peer-to-peer training to physicians and their office staff on topics ranging from clinical tools/skills to office management relevant to general practitioner practices. [adapted from abstract]
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Assessment of a Complementary Curricular Strategy for Training South African Physicians in a Cuban Medical University
Although the ethical, humanistic and solidarity Cuba’s general medical training program does not provide all skills needed by a general practitioner in South Africa, so Cuba has applied a curricular strategy of 12 complementary courses to develop the requested additional skills. The objective of this study was to determine why the complementary curricular strategy has not been entirely successful and identify possible courses of action for improvement. [adapted from abstract]
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Developing Nursing Capacity for Health Systems and Services Research in Cuba, 2008-2011
The objective of this research was to assess the results of a strategy implemented between 2008 and 2011 to develop nursing capacity for health systems and services research in 14 national research institutes based in Havana. [from abstract]
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Will Clinical Associates be Effective for South Africa
This article outlines a program in South Africa that has developed an innovative mid-level medical worker model that can contribute substantively to the development of quality district-level health care and examines the priorities for expanding and sustaining the program going forward. [adapted from author]
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Human Resources Needs for Universal Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa: A Time and Motion Study
This article quantifies the number of HIV health workers required to be added to the current HIV workforce to achieve universal access to HIV treatment in South Africa, under different eligibility criteria. [from abstract]
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Health Worker Perspectives on User Fee Removal in Zambia
Health user fees were introduced in Zambia at the beginning of the 1990s with the objective of improving staff motivation. In 2006, they were removed in view of the poverty levels in the country, the high cost for accessing health services, and the desire to provide universal access. This article examines the perspectives of health workers on the change in policy. [adapted from author]
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Pharmaceutical Care Issues Identified by Pharmacists in Patients with Diabetes, Hypertension or Hyperlipidaemia in Primary Care Settings
This study demonstrates the importance of pharmacists working in collaboration with other healthcare providers, especially medical doctors, in identifying and resolving pharmaceutical care issues to provide optimal care for patients with chronic diseases. [from author]
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Evolution of Global Health Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Curricula
This article traces the evolution of global health teaching in undergraduate medical curricula and presents recommendations for how the discipline might develop in future years. [adapted from abstract]
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Improving Infection Prevention and Control in Ethiopia through Supportive Supervision of Health Facilities
This report outlines an intervention that utilized supportive supervision in 86 facilities around Ethiopia that aimed to: enable healthcare workers to practice new skills in infection prevention and control (IPC) following formal trainings; coach health care facility staff to improve their performance in order to meet recommended IPC standards; improve the skills of supervisors for independent program monitoring; integrate IPC into the routine health care supervision system; and monitor the changes in program performance as a result of these activities. [adapted from author]
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Public Health Interventions in Midwifery: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews
Maternity care providers, particularly midwives, have a window of opportunity to influence pregnant women about positive health choices. This aim of this paper is to identify evidence of effective public health interventions from good quality systematic reviews that could be conducted by midwives. [from abstract]
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Do Health Workers' Preferences Influence Their Practices? Assessment of Providers' Attitude and Personal Use of New Treatment Recommendations for Management of Uncomplicated Malaria, Tanzania
This study provided an opportunity to assess the influence of health workers’ attitude to the usage of new malaria treatment recommendations. Overall, results showed variations in health workers attitudes and practices regarding new treatment recommendations in terms of type of health facility, ownership and type of health worker at six months post changes and two years later. [from author]
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Private Sector Drug Shops in Integrated Community Case Management of Malaria, Pneumonia, and Diarrhea in Children in Uganda
This study sought to determine appropriateness of treatment of common childhood illnesses at private sector drug shops in two rural districts of Uganda. [adapted from abstract]
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Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing Task Shifting in Underserved Remote Settings: The Case of Kongwa District, Central Tanzania
The aim of this was to describe the current situation of implementing task shifting in the context of acute shortages of health workers and, secondly, and to provide a descriptive account of the potential opportunities or benefits and the likely challenges which might ensue as a result of implementing task shifting. [adapted from abstract]
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Finding, Organizing and Using Health Information: A Training Manual for Students, Researchers and Health Workers in Africa
Whether you are a doctor, a nurse, an allied health professional or a medical librarian, this manual provides answers to the most crucial questions that arise while searching for health information. The manual covers topics such as: available information sources, tools and techniques for searching the web, intellectual property rights, managing and storing information, and evaluating information for accuracy. The resource also includes video guides for each module.[adapted from author]
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Stakeholder Perceptions of a Nurse Led Walk-In Centre
This study aimed to ascertain the views of key stakeholders on the introduction of a nurse led primary care walk-in center in a rural region of Australia that aimed to fulfill an unmet health care need in the community due to the shortage of general practitioners, meet projected demand for health care services and relieve pressure on the hospital system. [adapted from abstract[
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Teaching of Evidence-Based Medicine to Medical Students in Mexico: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The main objective of this study was to assess evidence-based medicine learning (knowledge, attitudes and self-reported skills) in undergraduate medical students with a randomized controlled trial. [from abstract]
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Method for Developing Standardised Interactive Education for Complex Clinical Guidelines
The aim of this study was to transform the Clinical Practice Guideline for Perinatal Mortality into an education workshop to develop quality standardised interactive education acceptable to participants for learning skills in collaborative interprofessional care. [adapted from abstract]
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Global Health Worker Crisis
This interactive infographic illustrates the statistics for countries with critical health worker shortages as defined by the World Health Organization. [adapted from publisher]
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Descriptive Study on Health Workforce Performance after Decentralisation of Health Services in Uganda
The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of health workers after decentralisation of the health services in Uganda in order to identify and suggest possible areas for improvement. [from abstract]
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Hotline HRH October 2012
This edition of Hotline, an HRH newletter focused on the needs of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in Africa, highlights resources, trainings and workshops, articles of interest and other information for FBO HRH pracitioners.
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Migration of the Global Health Workforce
This five minute video outlines the issues and problems of health worker migration from the perspective of the health worker, the population and the countries involved in the global health workforce. It also outlines the progress being made and the way forward.
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Models for Increasing the Health Workforce
This article outlines the need for and different types of models for increasing the health workforce in South Africa to create a stable human resource base in the health sector. [adapted from author]
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