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Policy and Planning

Championing a Regional Approach to Health Workforce Planning and Management

August 2012 by CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International
application/pdf iconChampioning a Regional Approach to Health Workforce Planning and Management

This profile of Professor Kayode Odusote draws on CapacityPlus’s technical brief, West Africa’s Regional Approach to Strengthening Health Workforce Information. It is part of the Aspen Institute’s Council Conversation Series: Stories and Solutions.

TAGS: Health Workers, HR Information Systems, HR Management, iHRIS, Planning, West Africa

Health Worker Education

June 2012 by CapacityPlus
Issue Brief #6

How can countries scale up education of health workers to meet health care needs? This brief presents an overview of issues related to the production and training of health workers with suggested actions, key considerations, and resources. Also available in French.

TAGS: Education and Training, HR Management, 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. Also available in French.

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

Les agents de santé communautaires

May 2012 by CapacityPlus
application/pdf iconIssue Brief #5 (French)

Comment les pays peuvent-ils rapidement accroître leurs effectifs sanitaires ?

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

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

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

December 2011 by Sarah Dwyer
application/pdf iconÉchos 9

Scott Radloff, le directeur du bureau de l’USAID pour les populations et la santé de la reproduction, nous parle des stratégies ayant permis aux communautés dans le besoin d’accéder à des services de soins intégrés.

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

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