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Policy and Planning

Community Health Workers

May 2012 by CapacityPlus
application/pdf iconIssue Brief #5

How can countries more rapidly increase their health workforce? This brief presents an overview of issues related to community health workers and human resources for health along with suggested actions, key considerations, and resources.

TAGS: Community Health Workers, Education and Training, HR Management, Policy and Planning

West Africa’s Regional Approach to Strengthening Health Workforce Information

April 2012 by Kayode Odusote, Carol Bales, Sarah Dwyer, and Dykki Settle
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus Technical Brief #2 (PDF)
CapacityPlus Technical Brief #2 (Interactive Version)

The West African Health Organization is implementing a regional approach to strengthening health workforce information systems, leveraging resources from CapacityPlus, other USAID-funded projects, donors, and global organizations. This technical brief provides an overview of this approach, highlights lessons learned, and provides recommendations for other regions and countries to adopt the approach.

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TAGS: Ghana, HR Information Systems, iHRIS, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo

Using Routine Human Resources Information Systems to Manage, Measure, and Monitor the Health Workforce

December 2011 by Dykki Settle, Carl Leitner, Carol Bales, and George Blair
application/pdf iconUsing Routine HRIS

This paper examines the effectiveness of USAID’s and IntraHealth International’s approach to using routine HRIS to strengthen the health workforce in low-resource settings. It appears as a chapter in a book containing all the papers presented at the International Conference on Research in Human Resources for Health, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 9-11, 2010. The book, O trabalho em saude: Abordagens quantitativas e qualitativas (eds. Célia Regina Pierantoni, Mario Roberto Dal Poz, and Tania França), is available at http://www.obsnetims.org.br/adm/arq/livro/2141551.pdf (7 MB).

TAGS: Data for Decision-Making, Health Workforce Policy and Planning, HR Information Systems

Prestataires de soins et croissance démographique : Comment mieux répondre aux besoins de la communauté

December 2011 by Sarah Dwyer
application/pdf iconÉchos 9

French translation of Reaching into the Community: Health Workers and Population Growth. Scott Radloff, director of USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, talks about successful strategies to bring integrated health services to communities in need.

TAGS: Community Health Workers, Family Planning, Health Workers, Integration, Population Growth

Reaching into the Community: Health Workers and Population Growth

December 2011 by Sarah Dwyer
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus Voices #9

Scott Radloff, director of USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, talks about successful strategies to bring integrated health services to communities in need. Also available in French.

TAGS: Community Health Workers, Family Planning, Health Workers, Integration, Population Growth

La croissance démographique et la crise mondiale des effectifs sanitaires

November 2011 by Sara Pacqué-Margolis, Carie Muntifering, Crystal Ng, and Shaun Noronha
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus Résumé technique n°1

French translation of Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis. This data-rich technical brief examines the potential impact of population growth on countries’ efforts to improve access to health workers, and recommends an approach that will help meet families’ health needs while mitigating the health workforce crisis.

TAGS: Family Planning, Health Workers, Policy and Planning, Population Growth

Kayode Odusote: A West African Perspective on Open Source

November 2011 by Sarah Dwyer and Carol Bales
Kayode Odusote Interview

In this video clip, Professor Kayode Odusote talks about how he’s helping West African countries with their health workforce information systems, and why CapacityPlus’s open source iHRIS software suits their needs.

TAGS: Health Workers, HR Information Systems, Open Source, Policy and Planning

Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis

November 2011 by Sara Pacqué-Margolis, Carie Muntifering, Crystal Ng, and Shaun Noronha
application/pdf iconCapacityPlus Technical Brief #1 (PDF)
CapacityPlus Technical Brief #1 (Online Tool)

This data-rich technical brief examines the potential impact of population growth on countries’ efforts to improve access to health workers, and recommends an approach that will help meet families’ health needs while mitigating the health workforce crisis. Also available in French.

Access the online tool, or download the PDF in English or French. Also read the related Voices, news, and blog post. If you have any questions, please contact us.

TAGS: Family Planning, Health Workers, Policy and Planning, Population Growth