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This document is an introduction to the optimizing performance and quality process for analyzing the performance of health workers, organizations, and systems, and setting up interventions to improve performance and quality or build on strengths and successes. [adapted from author]

This brief outlines the concept of performance-based incentives (PBI) in the health sector, facilitating the design of these incentive programs using the case of Senegal as an example, building the evidence for PBI and integrating PBI into strengthening efforts. [adapted from author]

Prepared as a background document for “The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011,” this paper focuses on three overarching aspects essential to midwifery workforce management: managing entry to the workforce, managing stay in the workforce, and managing exit from the workforce. [adapted from author]

Issued by an international group of experts in health and private sector, this report stresses the importance of the private sector in responding to the HRH crisis and the need for further health workforce innovation, that increased the supply, improved the effectiveness of health workers. [from publisher]

The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient and staff perceptions regarding whether the peer education program as as part of a task-shifting strategy for HIV care relieved the workload on professional health care workers and delivered services of acceptable quality. [adapted from author]

The purpose of this study was to test whether or not the effects of a seven week rural undergraduate placement for medical students (which showed positive influence on student attitudes to rural health and their intention to practise in a rural settings) persisted into postgraduate years. [adapted from abstract]

The major aims of this study were to better understand the challenges faced by rural acute care clinicians and the impact of these challenges on their capacity to carry out their roles. A secondary aim was to explore and prioritise strategies to address selected challenges. [from introduction]

This article reports the findings of a qualitative study of therapist workforce and service delivery in the disability sector in rural and remote Australia. The aim was to investigate issues of importance to policy-makers, managers and therapists providing services to people with disabilities in rural and remote areas. [from abstract]

The purpose of this study was to explore the use of the innovative research approach called photovoice as an educational strategy to foster learning about and interest in rural locations and rural nursing as future practice settings. [from abstract]

The authors analyzed the flow of all the clinical physicians in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, with particular attention to migration to rural and distant places to determine effective workforce policies for rural and remote areas. [adapted from introduction]

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of workplace violence in oral healthcare centres against Nigerian dental professionals. [from abstract]

The brief describes the difference a community health worker program has made to the lives of children in one remote region of Ghana.

This booklet provides an overview of capacity development and some basic definitions; highlights examples of practice in action from the field; and a series of tools and resources useful for developing and implementing capacity development programs. The case studies include examples such as health provider training to meet the needs of young people in Guyana, telemedicing in Mongolia, and investing in midwives and midwifery. [adapted from author]

Given concerns regarding the effects of this loss to their countries of origin, the authors undertook a study of international medical graduates from lower income countries currently practicing in the United States. [from abstract]

This training program is designed for community health workers working in maternal and child health and covers topics such as family planning, reproductive health, gender violence, prevention of mother-to-child HIV among others.

This impact evaluation was conducted to assess volunteer community health workers’ effect on child morbidity, mortality and to calculate volunteer retention. [from abstract]

This tool kit has been specifically designed to present an overview of the key aspects of a complex area of development need: how we close the gap between evidence and action to encourage nurses to use an evidence-based approach to their practice. [adapted from author]

This paper provides an overview of the issues related to the improvement of the functioning of the laboratory workforce, of the position of the laboratory worker in the health services and the implications of this position for optimal use of the laboratory services by clinicians in low income countries. [from author]

This brief presents an overview of issues related to the production and training of health workers with suggested actions, key considerations, and resources. [from publisher]

Participants in the Human Resources for Health Leadership and Management Course in Uganda share some perspectives on a program designed to help them address health workforce challenges at the district level. [from publisher]

This report looks at how innovations in the skill mix of health workers can improve the quality and availability of health services and reduce costs. It identifies the key success factors and the environment necessary for effective innovation and outlines the main gaps in the evidence base, concluding with recommendations to professionals, governments, development agencies and research bodies. [from publisher]

This online training manual containing background information, handouts, exercises and powerpoint presentations to train health professionals on gender-based violence. [from publisher]

This article is an overview of the role of health services in secondary and tertiary prevention of intimate partner violence. It reviews the effectiveness and limitations of in-service training programmes to identify and care for women who have experienced intimate partner violence and initiatives in developing countries to integrate concerns on gender-based violence into health-care services at different levels. [adapted from abstract]

This guide is meant to help program officers integrate gender-based violence initiatives into health sector portfolios during project design, implementation and evaluation. It focuses on what the health sector can do in each type of health program - from community mobilization to health policy. [adapted from author]

This document provides a strategy for addressing the complex problem of gender-based violence and concrete approaches for carrying it out, not only for those on the front lines attending to the women who live with violence, but also for decision-makers who may incorporate the lessons in the development of policies and resources. [from introduction]