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Workforce Effectiveness

Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity

February 2014 by CapacityPlus

CapacityPlus, with the USAID ASSIST Project and the World Bank, cohosted a knowledge-sharing and dissemination event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on February 18. The three-hour program focused on the latest evidence from country applications of innovations to strengthen health workforce recruitment, retention, and productivity. Through a combination of panel presentations, interactive roundtable groups, and moderated question-and-answer sessions, participants learned about and discussed various approaches and tools that can be used to develop policies to strengthen recruitment, retention, and productivity and improve access to high-quality family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and other health services. Read the related news and access videos and presentations: Read more »

TAGS: Health Workers, Productivity, Recruitment, Retention, Workforce Effectiveness

Tools, Evidence, and Research Gaps for More Effective Community Health Worker Performance and Productivity

February 2014 by Diana Frymus and Sarah Smith Lunsford
application/pdf iconTools, Evidence, and Research Gaps for More Effective Community Health Worker Performance and Productivity

This presentation guided an interactive roundtable discussion at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity, held on February 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

TAGS: Community Health Workers, Performance, Productivity

Determining the Costs of Retention Strategies with iHRIS Retain Software

February 2014 by Rachel Deussom
application/pdf iconDetermining the Costs of Retention Strategies with iHRIS Retain Software

This presentation guided an interactive roundtable discussion at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity, held on February 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

TAGS: Health Workers, iHRIS, Retention

Factors Influencing Health Workers’ Employment Decisions and Interventions to Address Geographical Imbalances in Health Workforce Distribution

February 2014 by Wanda Jaskiewicz
application/pdf iconFactors Influencing Health Workers’ Employment Decisions and Interventions to Address Geographical Imbalances in Health Workforce Distribution

This presentation was given at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity, held on February 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

TAGS: Global Leadership, Policy and Planning, Wanda Jaskiewicz, Workforce Effectiveness

The Tanzania Health Worker Engagement Study: Exploring the Relationship between Engagement and Performance

February 2014 by Joseph Kundy, Tana Wuliji, Anna Nswila, Paul Magesa, and Davis Rumisha
application/pdf iconThe Tanzania Health Worker Engagement Study

This presentation is related to an interactive roundtable discussion at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity, held on February 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

TAGS: Engagement, Health Workers, Performance, Productivity, Tanzania

Moving Forward with the Health Labor Market Agenda

February 2014 by Edson Araújo
application/pdf iconMoving Forward with the Health Labor Market Agenda

This presentation guided an interactive roundtable discussion at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity, held on February 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

TAGS: Health Workers, Labor Markets, Productivity, Recruitment, Retention

Application of Discrete Choice Experiments to Identify Health Workers’ Employment Preferences

February 2014 by Akiko Maeda
application/pdf iconApplication of Discrete Choice Experiments to Identify Health Workers' Employment Preferences

This presentation guided an interactive roundtable discussion at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity, held on February 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

TAGS: Discrete Choice Experiment, Health Workers, Retention

Improving Efficiency, Productivity, and Performance with the Workforce You Have, Not the One You Wish You Had

February 2014 by Edward Broughton
application/pdf iconImproving Efficiency, Productivity, and Performance with the Workforce You Have, Not the One You Wish You Had

This presentation was given at the CapacityPlus knowledge-sharing and dissemination event, Supporting Country-Led Efforts to Recruit and Retain Health Workers and Improve Their Productivity, held on February 18, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

TAGS: Global Leadership, Policy and Planning, Workforce Effectiveness