Increasing Access to Family Planning in Ghana through Policy Change: Task-Sharing to Enable Auxiliary Nurses to Provide Contraceptive Implant Services
Language:
English
Publishers:
Population Council, USAID
Copyright:
2014
Pages:
4
Description:
Health care is labor intensive and managers strive to identify a mix of staff that can safely deliver a range of services using available resources. In many developing countries,primary-level workers, auxiliary staff, and community health workers (CHWs) are being trained to assume roles and perform functions traditionally reserved for mid- or high-level cadres of health workers as a means of optimizing the number and capacity of available providers. The intention of this process, known as “task-sharing” or “task-shifting,” is “to train cadres who do not normally have competencies for specific tasks to deliver them and thereby increase levels of health care access.” [from introduction]
Subject
Geographic Focus
Resource Type
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