HRH Global Resource Center May Newsletter
News
- The GRC has launched the first online video version of its HRH Leaders in Action interview series with Dr. Eddie Mukooyo.
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Dominica and Trinidad & Tobago have been added to the subject category.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,733 resources, and 77 have been added this month. Ten of the latest additions are below.
10 Resources Added This Month
Capacity Planning in Health Care: a Review of the International Experience
This policy brief reviews approaches to capacity planning, a crucial component of health care governance. By concentrating on a diverse selection of countries, it aims to show a range of approaches to health care financing and organization, since both of these factors have an impact on approaches to capacity planning. [adapted from introduction]
Online Educational Tools to Improve the Knowledge of Primary Care Professionals in Infectious Diseases
Infectious diseases kill more than 10 million people worldwide every year. It is therefore vital that doctors receive a good education in this field. Online learning is one way in which doctors can learn new knowledge and skills. We conducted this study to determine whether the infectious diseases interactive online learning packages enabled primary care professionals to increase their knowledge and skills in the area of infectious diseases. [from abstract]
Midwifery Scenario Pakistan
This presentation discusses the midwifery gap in Pakistan and the strategies they are using to address it.
Health Workforce
This issue focuses on the health workforce and contains the articles: Could health worker migration bring benefits to Malawi?; Removal of childbirth delivery fees: the impact on health workers in Ghana; Regulation of dual job-holding public sector doctors in Peru; Health worker responses to health sector reforms; and Motivating Tanzanian primary health care workers. [adapted from author]
Involving Traditional Health Practitioners in HIV/AIDS Interventions: Lessons from the Western Cape Province
This paper documents the results of the second year of operation of the HOPE Cape Town (HIV Outreach Program and Education) Pilot Traditional Healer Project, an innovative HIV/AIDS collaboration between traditional health practitioners and western medicine in the Western Cape Province. [from introduction]
Village-Based Midwife Programme in Indonesia
The government of Indonesia launched the village-based midwife program to place a skilled birth attendant in every village to provide antenatal and perinatal care, family planning, other reproductive health services, and nutrition counseling. The attendants were also to facilitate basic primary health-care services, including immunization and nutrition interventions. [from author]
Monitoring Education and Training for Health Workers
Measuring and monitoring the whole education and training pipeline are essential to the planning, management and quality control of the health workforce in a country. This requires timely and reliable data on each of its phases. [from author]
Gender and Health Workforce Statistics
Gender analysis of the health workforce may reveal that health systems themselves can reflect or even exacerbate many of the social inequalities they are meant to address and be immune from. [from author]
Guiding Principles for National Health Workforce Strategies
These guidelines help answer what national health workforce plans should contain and how they should be developed to give them the best chance of significantly improving health outcomes and moving countries as rapidly as possible towards universal access to essential health interventions. The guidelines should serve as overarching principles that will promote the success of health workforce plans, while ensuring that they are consistent with human rights. [adapted from author]
Health Systems Database
This easy-to-use web-based tool compiles and analyzes country data from multiple sources, provides charting options, and generates automated country fact sheets, helping users to assess the performance of the country’s health systems. [publisher's description]
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