Health Workforce

Gender and Health Systems Strengthening

This free course on the Global Health eLearning Center is authored by CapacityPlus’s Constance Newman of IntraHealth International. The course is intended to assist USAID field-based health officers, foreign service nationals, and US government partners to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in health systems strengthening efforts. By the end of the course, the learner will understand how health systems components interact with each other, how gender plays a role in each health systems component, and how to address these gender issues in health systems strengthening activities in order to improve health and social outcomes. CapacityPlus’s Crystal Ng and Ann Yang of IntraHealth International served as course managers along with Nandini Jayarajan and Lisa Mwaikambo of JHU∙CCP.

Establishing and Using Data Standards in Health Workforce Information Systems

Human resources information systems are successful when they support policy and management decisions and when those decisions lead to better health care. However, success depends on the quality of the human resources for health data going into the system. The aim of this technical brief is to convey why data standards matter. The authors review organizational, national, and international data standards that can help ensure data quality, provide country examples, and discuss the key role of multisectoral stakeholder leadership groups in formulating and reaching consensus on standards.

“I’m a Health Worker”

This series of one-minute videos features health workers around the world who speak from the heart about their jobs. CapacityPlus created this series to highlight how the project places health workers at the center of its efforts to address the global health workforce shortage.

Applying Stakeholder Leadership Group Guidelines in Ghana: A Case Study

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana faces health worker shortages, limiting the country’s likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Working together with the stakeholders and partners that make up the Ghanaian health care system, CapacityPlus supported the revitalization of the Ghana Health Workforce Observatory to address key human resources for health issues. This case study discusses the steps taken to revitalize the observatory through the application of Guidelines for Forming and Sustaining Human Resources for Health Stakeholder Leadership Groups. Success factors that contributed to the Observatory’s revitalization are highlighted, along with challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations.

WHO Country Assessment Tool on the Uses and Sources for Human Resources for Health (HRH) Data

There is widespread recognition of the need for accurate, timely, and effective human resources for health (HRH) data to inform the development of policies on HRH. However, many countries have weak information systems that can generate these data. This diagnostic tool contains questions intended to gather information on the uses, type, and quality of data on HRH at the institutional level in countries. The resulting information can then be used to identify priorities and develop strategies to strengthen human resources information systems at the district, regional, or national level. CapacityPlus contributed to the development of this resource through the WHO Health Workforce Information Reference Group (HIRG).

Measuring the Success of the HRH Global Resource Center

In 2006, IntraHealth International, as implementer of the USAID-funded Capacity Project, developed and launched the HRH Global Resource Center, a digital library committed to reducing access barriers in developing countries to the best human resources for health information available. Since the launch, the HRH Global Resource Center has transformed in response to usage, feedback, and changes in the field. This article in Knowledge Management for Development shares IntraHealth’s experiences developing, using, and refining monitoring and evaluation methods and metrics for the HRH Global Resource Center.

Directives concernant la formation et la pérennisation des groupes d’action des parties prenantes en faveur des ressources humaines pour la santé

Ces directives proposent un ensemble de mesures pratiques, claires et simples d’utilisation que les chefs de file en ressources humaines pour la santé (RHS) au niveau national peuvent mettre en œuvre afin de lancer et de pérenniser des groupes d’action regroupant les parties prenantes (GAPP). Un GAPP dans le domaine des RHS rassemble des représentants de toutes les entités essentielles impliquées dans la planification, la production, la gestion et le soutien des effectifs sanitaires d’un pays donné. Il est à présent clairement établi que les dynamiques régissant le personnel de santé et les défis auxquels celui-ci fait est confronté sont trop complexes et trop segmentés pour pouvoir être traités par une seule entité. Alors qu’il peut sembler aisé de mettre sur pied les alliances et les réseaux diversifiés nécessaires à l’atteinte d’un tel objectif, cela s’avère en pratique plus difficile que prévu. Les mesures recommandées et décrites à travers ce document de référence ont pour but de vous aider à envisager la création d’un tel groupe, de sorte qu’il fonctionne idéalement, qu’il ait un impact positif et qu’il évite certaines difficultés communes ou qu’il s’y attaque.

Superando el obstáculo de la implementación: poniendo en acción las herramientas para la promoción de recursos humanos en salud

Spanish translation of “Overcoming the hurdle of implementation: Putting human resources for health tools into action.”

Human Resources for Health (HRH) Indicator Compendium

HRH Indicator CompendiumThis compendium provides a list of published indicators on human resources for health (HRH) and is intended as a tool for HRH systems strengthening practitioners interested in monitoring HRH projects and programs.

Documents de référence en français produit par le Projet Capacity (2005-2009)

Ensemble de documents de référence en français produit par le Projet Capacity (2005-2009) dont le but était de renforcer les ressources humaines afin de mettre en œuvre des programmes sanitaires de qualité au sein des pays en voie de développement.

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