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Factors Associated with Job Satisfaction among Chinese Community Health Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study

This study aims to clarify the level of job satisfaction of Chinese community health workers between a metropolitan and a small city in Liaoning province and explore its associated factors. [from abstract]

Governance and Human Resources for Health

The authors argue that the influence of governance is undervalued in addressing the HRH crisis, both globally and at country level; and they review a thematic series which aimed to expand the evidence base on the role of governance in addressing the HRH crisis. [adapted from abstract]

Convincing Health Workers to Work in Rural Areas

The focus of this brief is on nurses’, clinical officers’ and assistant medical officers’ job preferences and their willingness to work in rural and remote areas in Tanzania. [from author]

Assessing the Contribution of Prescribing in Primary Care by Nurses and Professionals Allied to Medicine: A Systematic Review of Literature

This review attempts to answer questions that remain on the contribution prescribing by nurses and professionals allied to medicine makes to the care of patients in primary care and define the evidence on which clinicians, commissioners of services and policy makers can consider this innovation. [adapted from abstract]

National Mental Health Programme: Manpower Development Scheme of Eleventh Five-Year Plan

India is facing shortage of qualified mental health manpower. Recognizing this key constraint, the government of India has formulated a manpower development scheme to address the issue. This article outlines the scheme’s primary initatives: centers of excellence in mental health, departments in mental health specialties, upgrading of psychiatric wings of medical colleges, and modernization of state-run mental hospitals. [adapted from abstract]

Reaching into the Community: Health Workers and Population Growth

Scott Radloff, director of USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, talks about successful strategies to bring integrated health services to communities in need. [from publisher]

Emerging Issues in HRH in Resource Poor Settings

Topics covered by this presentation include: the global backdrop; HRH in context; key HRH policy issues; interpreting the evidence base; HRH in the Pacific; and key priniciples for addressing HRH. [adapted from author]]

Evidence in Support of Community Based Interventions: Implications for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

This presentation covers: global trends for maternal and childe survival; determinants of MDGs; current knowledge on what works and the role of human resources for health; and the role of innovations in scaling up. [adapted from author]

Service Targets Staff Projection Tool: User Guide

The Service Target Staffing Projection Tool is designed to estimate the workforce required to deliver an agreed package of health services. The tool helps to set targets for production and recruitment of staff based on assumptions concerning the staff required at each level of the health system. [from author]

Building Workforce Capacity

This presentation discusses effective and detrimental health worker environment models and definitions and the impact these have on heath worker performance.

Public Health Emergencies: Some Issues and Approaches

This presentation discusses the impact of public health emergencies on the health workforce and planning needs for addressing it.

Financing Human Resources for Health

This presentation provides a background to HRH finance, identifies the key HRH cost components, the fiscal space for HRH and expanding the HRH fiscal space. [adapted from author]

Pacific Regional Human Resource for Health: Policy Discussion Paper

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. It introduces the issues and challenges in HRH in 13 Pacific Island Nations leading to a proposed scheme to manage HRH migration and mobility. [adapted from author]

Human Resources for Health and Decentralization

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. The presention outlines the background of decentralization in the health sector including its meaning, forms, drivers, benefits and pitfalls. It also introduces the opportunities and challenges for HRH managment in a decentralized system and the concept of recentralization. [adapted from author]

Health Workforce Migration and Mobility: The Big Picture

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. It discusses health worker shortages, maldistribution, international health care labor markets, policy mix, factors contributing to migration, international recruitment and its ethical context. [adapted from author]

Approaches to Workforce Planning

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. The author outlines the issues of workforce planning and discusses tools and methodologies for effective planning.

Aboriginal Health Workers: An Illustrative Example of Workforce Substitution

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. It outlines an attempt to create a new form of health workforce to not only fill a gap but to deliver services better than traditional health professionals. [adapted from author]

National Health Workforce Innovation and Reform Strategic Framework for Action 2011-2015

This framework has been designed to provide an overarching, national platform that will guide future health workforce policy and planning in Australia. It sets out key priority areas and five essential domains that create the foundation for an integrated, high performing workforce fit to meet Australia’s health care needs.[from foreword]

Discriminative Power of Patient Experience Surveys

Comparisons of patient experiences between providers are increasingly used as an index of provider performance. This study describes the ability of patient experience surveys to discriminate between healthcare providers for various patient groups and quality aspects, and reports the sample sizes required for reliable comparisons of provider scores. [adapted from abstract]

Community Case Management of Severe Pneumonia with Oral Amoxicillin in children Aged 2-59 Months in Haripur District, Pakistan: A Cluster Randomised Trial

The objective of this study was to assess whether community case management by lady health workers with oral amoxicillin in children with severe pneumonia was equivalent to current standard of care. [from summary]

Managing the Demand for Global Health Education

This artcle argues that: emerging training programs in global health worldwide create a unique opportunity to re-examine the strategy to scale-up human resources to reduce the global burden of disease; funding should be channeled to programs that promise sustained, rational, and effective training; and global health training programs should be evaluated by the quality of the experience for trainees from all settings and by the incremental improvement in in-country care, infrastructure, and research. [adapted from author]

Community Case Management of Malaria in Urban Settings: A Feasibility Study in Five African Sites

Community case management of malaria is an established route for distribution of anti-malarial drugs in rural areas, but this study examined the feasibility and acceptability of the approach through Community Medicine Distributors (CMDs) in urban areas using before and after implementation studies in five African cities in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Malawi. [adapted from introduction]

Evaluating the Quality of Care for Severe Pregnancy Complications: The WHO Near-Miss Approach for Maternal Health

This guide is intended for health-care workers, program managers and policy-makers who are responsible for the quality of maternal health care within a health-care facility or of the entire health system. It presents a standard approach for monitoring the implementation of critical interventions in maternal health care and proposes a systematic process for assessing the quality of care. In its entirety, the included methods and related processes constitute the WHO maternal near-miss approach. [from introduction]

Doctor in Your Pocket: Health Hotlines in Developing Countries

This report tracks hotlines operating in developing countries that connect callers to health professionals, assesses the hotlines success to date, offers suggestions to advance this approach, and assesses their commercial viability and potential for growth. [adapted from author]

Monitoring the Health of Nurses in Canada

The ultimate goal of this project was to help policy and decision makers maintain and enhance the health of the nursing workforce by providing them with an overview of the information related to nurse health in Canada. [adapted from author]