Presentations

Costs of Eliminating Critical Shortages in Human Resources for Health

This presentation was part of the WHO-OECD Hosted Dialogue on migration and other
health workforce issues in a global economy. It discusses the cost of providing the minimum number of health workers for developing countries in terms of increasing the production of health workers, taking into account the diversity and competencies of health workers, and augmenting financial rewards and improving the working environment. [adapted from author]

Retention of Health Care Workers: Countries' Experiences - Swaziland

This presentation details the issues of migration and retention in Swaziland.

Malawi’s Emergency Human Resources Program: an Overview

This presentation on the emergency HR program in Malawi was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

Financing and Managing the Health Workforce in the Public Sector

This introductory presentation on maintaining economically sustainable staffing levels was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

Retention of Health Workers with a Focus on Rural Areas

This presentation on health worker retention in rural area was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

Domestic Training and International Recruitment of Health Workers

This presentation on the domestic training and international recruitment of health workers was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

Introductory Remarks: Joint WHO-OECD Project "Health Workforce and International Migration"

This introductory presentation on migration and other health workforce issues in a global economy was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

Current Climate Prospects in Africa for Public-Private Partnerships in Health

This presentation discusses the current climate and prospects for health partnerships between the private and public sectors in Africa. [from presentation]

Contracting of Health Services by Private Providers

This presentation discusses the various aspects of private providers as they pertain to contracting for health services. [from presentation]

Filipino Midwives Reaching out to the Communities

This presentation discusses the roles and challenges of private sector midwives and how they can benefit community health care.

Working with Traditional Providers in Improving Health Outcomes in India

This presentation addresses the role and impact of traditional health service providers in India and how they help fill the gaps in health worker coverage. [from author]

Mothers in the Middle: Potential for Integrated Programs in Maternal Health

This presentation from the Scaling Up High-Impact FP/MNCH Best Practices in Asia and the Near East Technical Meeting covers the reasons to support integrated services and the challenges to this process.

Midwifery Scenario Pakistan

This presentation discusses the midwifery gap in Pakistan and the strategies they are using to address it.

Structured On-the-Job Training (OJT) and Postabortion Care Expansion in Low Resource Settings: Nepal Experience

This presentation describes the benefits and challenges of structured on-the-job training with evidence from a case study of Nepal.

Strengthening Health Leadership and Management: the WHO Framework

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It defines health leadership and management, why strengthening it is important, the lessons learned so far, and the main components and uses of the WHO framework. [adapted from author]

Recruiting and Retaining Health Workers in Ethiopia

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It covers the imbalance in physician deployment in Ethiopia and the lottery system for ensuring coverage in rural areas.

Economics of Scaling Up Health Education: Opportunities and Constraints

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It details the financial issues involved in scaling up health worker training such as the cost of hiring additional staff, educating health workers and expanding training capacity. It also outlines the current and possible future sources of increasing expenditure for health worker training. [adapted from author]

Block Granting, Perfomance Based Incentives and Fiscal Space Issue: the New Generation of HRH Reforms in Rwanda

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It reviews a study of how Rwanda, faced with constrained fiscal conditions, has implemented innovative reforms to create fiscal space for human resources and to make these resources more responsive to needs through an analysis of budget documents and policy and regulation changes and key informant interviews. [adapted from author]

Impact of Wage Bill Policies on the Health Workforce

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It talks about goverment spending policies on health worker wages and how they affect the health workforce.

Long Road to Adequate and Sustained Donor Financing for Health

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It breaks down current health spending including HRH resource needs and gaps, provides a critical assessment of HRH financing by some of the top donors and addresses campaiging for adequate and sustained donor financing. [adapted from author]

Financing Human Resources for Health: Five Questions for the International Community

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It presents five questions on the financial concerns of scaling up the number of health workers to provide adequate health care.

Uganda Health Workforce Study: Satisfaction and Intent to Stay Among Health Workers in Public and PNFP Facilities

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It describes a study to identify the level of satisfaction and intent to stay among health workers and effort to develop strategies to improve retention. [adapted from author]

Financial Incentives and Mobility of the Health Workforce in Burkina Faso

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It describes a study done to analyze health worker perceptions of renumeration and determine the factors that affect the mobility of the health workforce in Burkina Faso

Human Resources Retention Scheme: Qualitative and Quantitative Experience from Zambia

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the Zambia Health Workers Retention Scheme, an incentive program targeting key health worker cadres primarily in rural district to decrease attrition rates of critical service providers. [adapted from author]

Trends, Magnitude, and Reasons of Nurse Migration out of Lebanon

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines HRH in the eastern Mediterranean region, trends in international nurse migration, and the Lebanese context. [adapted from author]

Philippine HRH Master Plan (2005-2030)

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines the Philippine’s HRH Master Plan to develop and install HHRMD systems that will support Philippine health sector reforms to improve health outcomes. [adapted from author]

Recruitment and Placement of Foreign Health Care Professionals to Work in the Public Sector Health Care in South Africa: Assessment

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It details a study done to assess the feasibility and interest among stakeholders in the Netherlands, UK and US in facilitating recruitment and placement of foreign health care professionals to work in public sector health care in South Africa. [adapted from author]

Long-Term Stabilization of General Practitioners in Rural Areas: From Wishful Thinking to Reality

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the situtation of rural health workers citing Mali and Madagascar as examples.

Migration to the UK Voices of Ghanaian Nurses: Preliminary Descriptive Findings

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines the micro-economics of health worker behaviour and discusses a study done to evaluate migration in Ghana.

Developing Competencies for Health Sector Managers

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It gives definitions and frameworks, core competencies needed, examples of good practice, observations and future directions. [adapted from author]