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Shared Communication Processes within Health Care Teams for Rare Diseases and Their Influence on Health Care Professionals' Innovative Behavior and Patient Satisfaction

The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of shared communication and decision making processes in patient-centered health care teams to the generation of innovative concepts and consequently to improvements in patient satisfaction. [from abstract]

Practicing Provider-Initiated HIV Testing in High Prevalence Settings: Consent Concerns and Missed Preventive Opportunities

The aim of this study was to determine the use of different types of HIV testing services and to investigate perceptions and experiences of these services with a particular emphasis on the provider initiated testing in three selected districts in Kenya, Tanzania, and, Zambia.

Engaging Service Delivery Providers in Contraceptive Security

The purpose of this brief is to highlight the importance of service providers in contraceptive security and identify recommended entry points at various levels of the health system to strengthen the role of service providers in contraceptive security. [from author]

Systematic Review on Human Resources for Health Interventions to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes: Evidence from Developing Countries

This review focuses on the impact of HRH interventions on health care professionals defined as skilled birth attendants to decrease maternal mortality and morbidity. It derives lessons, gaps and recommendations based on the studies conducted on HRH implementations in developing countries. [adapted from author]

Advancing Women's Leadership and Advocacy for AIDS Action Training Manual

This training manual is a resource to build the leadership, advocacy and management skills of grassroots women leaders and others working in HIV. It is a scaled-down adaptation of the training curriculum used to build the leadership skills and technical expertise of women working on the frontlines in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and to strengthen the capacity of their organizations to advocate for stronger HIV and AIDS policies, programs and resources that meet the distinct needs of women.

Estimates Of Health Care Professional Shortages In Sub-Saharan Africa By 2015

This paper uses a forecasting model to estimate the need for, supply of, and shortage of doctors, nurses, and midwives in thirty-nine African countries for 2015, the target date of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. [from abstract]

Using Technology for Supportive Supervision for TB in Nigeria

This presentation outlines an intervention that introduced PDAs or Smartphones for data collection in Nigeria to improve the supervision, assessment and creation of action plans for quality improvement in facilities where tuberculosis (TB) is diagnosed and treated. [adapted from author]

Nursing in Mauritius: Case Study

This case study provides a discussion on the key issues in the development of the nursing workforce in Mauritius. [from introduction]

Reduction of Client Waiting Time Using Task Shifting in an Anti-Retroviral Clinic at Specialist Hospital Bauchi, Nigeria

This study aimed to assess the impact of a task shifting intervention in an ARV clinic in reducing the patients’ waiting time in the clinic. [adapted from author]

Global Health Education Framework: a Conceptual Guide for Monitoring, Evaluation and Practice

This research article proposes a framework conceptualising global health education in practice to guide the evaluation and monitoring of educational interventions and reforms through a set of key indicators that characterize it. [adapted from abstract]

Institutional Public Private Partnerships for Core Health Services: Evidence from Italy

This work is a comparative analysis of the reasons for the adoption of institutional public-private partnerships and the governance and managerial features necessary to establish them as appropriate arrangements for public health services provisions. [from abstract]

Toolkit: Community Empowerment in MNH Towards the Alert Village (Desa Siaga)

The toolkit describes a process of implementing community empowerment in maternal and neonate health (MNH) and each step of the process, including guidelines and training manuals for the implementation process. The aim of this toolkit is to provide an example of possible best practice in community mobilisation to compliment medical based initiatives to reduce maternal death. [adapted from author]

Desa Siaga Cost Analysis

The term “Desa Siaga” describes the concept of community members owning their own resources and capacities for preventing and overcoming their own health problems, health emergencies and disasters based on mutual support and in a spirit of togetherness. This cost analysis provides additional information for all stakeholders contributing to informed decision making regarding DS implementation and this from an economic perspective. [from executive summary]

Hospital Management Training: New Ways to Improve Services in Indonesia: a Text Book and Guide

The quality of health services is influenced by the technical and managerial skills of the hospital team. This training curriculum aims to improve the management skills of the hospital teams by focusing on behavioral change and institutionalizing of the culture of quality improvement. [from foreword]

Influence of Burnout on Skills Retention of Junior Doctors at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital: a Case Study

This study used the Maslach Burnout Inventory to evaluate the degree of burnout among junior doctors at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and the influence on the retention of valuable skills in the hospital. [from author]

Efficiency and Effectiveness of Aid Flows Towards Health Workforce Development: Exploratory Study Based on Four Case Studies from Ethiopia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia and Mozambique

This paper reflects an initial review of aid effectiveness in relation to human resources for health. It asks whether the recent aid effectiveness agenda, as expressed in commitments made to the Paris Declaration, is responding appropriately to the specific needs of HRH and countries’ efforts to strengthen and scale up human resources. [from author]

Policies and Practices of Countries that Are Experiencing a Crisis in Human Resources for Health: Tracking Survey

In order to understand and monitor the progress in developing and implementing HRH policies in the 57 countries experiencing a critical deficit in the health workforce, this tracking survey provides an overview of the current situation in terms of HRH policies, plans, capacities and processes. [from author]

Impact of Turnover and the Benefit of Stability in the Nursing Workforce

The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the impact of nurse turnover and highlight the benefits of workforce stability. The cost of turnover and turnover issues are examined in relation to the existing literature and with an international lens. [from summary]

Educational Factors that Influence the Urban-Rural Distribution of Health Professionals in South Africa: a Case-Control Study

This study aimed to evaluate the influence of educational factors on the choice of rural or urban sites of practice of health professionals in South Africa. [from abstract]

Contribution of South African Curricula to Prepare Health Professionals for Working in Rural or Under-Served Areas in South Africa: a Peer Review Evaluation

The Collaboration for Health Equity through Education and Research was formed in 2003 to examine strategies that would increase the production of health professionals who choose to practise in rural and under-served areas in South Africa. This article aimed to identify how each faculty is preparing its students for service in rural or under-served areas. [from abstract]

Fit for Purpose? The Appropriate Education of Health Professionals in South Africa

This editorial explores what health sciences training institutions achieved in the past 50 years to address the health care priorities of South Africans who are most in need. [adapted from author]

Smart Phones Improving Clinical Outcomes

This article outlines a mobile health information pilot project in South Africa that provides nurses with instant access to a clinical library and treatment guidelines to improve their performance and positively impact patient care. [adapted from author]

Effect of Lay Health Worker Programmes on Mother and Child Health and Tuberculosis

This summary of evidence about the effect of lay health worker programmes (on mother and child health and tuberculosis) is derived from a Cochrane Review published in 2010. This video builds on the SUPPORT Summary of the same review, prepared for health policy makers in low and middle-income countries.

Do Lay or Community Health Workers in Primary Health Care Improve Maternal and Child Health and Tuberculosis Outcomes?

This summary is based on an update of a Cochrane systematic review published in 2010. The summary focuses on the effects of lay health worker interventions in improving maternal and child health and tuberculosis outcomes. [from author]

Migration of Health Workers in the Asia-Pacific Region

This report examines the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers (nurses, doctors and more specialised workers, such as pharmacists, radiologists and lab technicians) in the Asia-Pacific region. [from summary]

Newborn Care and Knowledge Translation: Perceptions among Primary Health Care Staff in Northern Vietnam

Nearly four million neonatal deaths occur annually in the world despite existing evidence-based knowledge with the potential to prevent many of these deaths. Effective knowledge translation (KT) could help to bridge this know-do gap in global health. The aim of this study was to explore aspects of KT at the primary healthcare level in a northern province in Vietnam. [from abstract]

Pilot Evaluation of Distance Education Modalities for Health Workers in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands

This article reports on a pilot evaluation of distance education modalities was conducted among U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands healthcare workers. [from abstract]

Pacific Basin Health Worker Training in the United States Affiliated Pacific Islands: Needs Assessment and Priorities for a Continuing Health Care Professional Development Program Executive Summary

There has been a well documented need for continuing education (CE) for health workers in the United States Affiliated Pacific Islands region. This executive summary highlights key points from a series of CE needs assessments conducted in the region in 2004. [from abstract]

Human Resources for Public Health Challenges in the Western Pacific: Local Community Colleges Respond

This article outlines a program developed to provide formal training for health workers in the Western Pacific to address HRH problems in the region, especially the adverse impact of both the absolute shortages of select health workers and the under-training of many of the current health workforce. [adapted from author]

Public Health Workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessment of Education and Labor in 17 Countries

This document addresses the field of public health education and the conditions in which public health personnel is integrated into the labor market. One of the purposes of the report is to investigate the characteristics of public health educational programs and their relation to the needs of national health systems. [from author]