HRH Global Resource Center March Newsletter

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10 Resources Added This Month

Assessing the Human Resource Capacity for Implementation of the National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Process Description and Tool Library
The purpose of this document is to provide a process, methodology and tools for assessing government human resource capacity to lead and manage an effective implementation of the NPA. [from author]

Staffing Remote Rural Areas in Middle- and Low-income Countries: a Literature Review of Attraction and Retention
This is a review of the literature on attracting and retaining health workers. The findings suggest that recruitment and retention strategies are usually not comprehensive and often limited to addressing a single or limited number of factors. [adapted from author]

Task Shifting May Prove Key to Tackling Infectious Diseases
Task shifting, a process whereby medical tasks are delegated to less specialized health-care workers, provides one mechanism to address some of the shortfalls of many health care systems. This article advocates for increased task shifting in health care systems, especially in the developing world. [adapted from author]

What if We Decided to Take Care of Everyone Who Needed Treatment? Workforce Planning in Mozambique Using Simulation of Demand for HIV/AIDS Care
This is a demand-driven staffing model based on treatment protocols for HIV-positive patients that adhere to Mozambican guidelines. [adapted from author]

Intent to Migrate Among Nursing Students in Uganda: Measures of the Brain Drain in the Next Generation of Health Professionals
This study explores the views of nursing students in Uganda to assess their views on professional practice options and their intentions to migrate to wealthier countries. [adapted from author]

Monitoring the Health Workforce: Measurement Issues and Tools
This brief provides a list of facility-based data collection tools that have been developed by the World Health Organization and other partners. The resources can be used to meet a wide range of specific information needs on human resources in health systems. [adapted from summary]

Linking Up: Creating a Complete Picture of Swaziland's Health Workforce
In order to gain an understanding of the total health workforce in Swaziland, The Capacity Project worked with senior leaders of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to develop a program to strengthen the country’s human resources information systems (HRIS). [from author]

Looking to the Future: Improving Family Planning Access and Quality in Rwanda
The Capacity Project is applying an integrated strategy to strengthen family planning (FP) and reproductive health. The project is helping the Ministry of Health develop the capacity of the clinical workforce to provide a full range of FP methods and services at 13 hospitals and 146 health centers. [adapted from author]

Human Resource for Health (HRH) Strategic Planning
Strategic planning helps an organization make fundamental decisions about its human resources by taking a long-range view of what it hopes to achieve and, in broad terms, how. [author's description]

Human Resources for Health: Overview
Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health has been teaching, researching and consulting in HRH throughout the changing global and country contexts for almost two decades. This overview paper highlights the changes that we have observed over time, in both the attention paid to workforce issues and the types of activities that we have seen. [from author]

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