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... 630 women die for every 100,000 births . Having a trained health worker present during the birth can make the difference between life and ... with 11 schools in Nigeria that train either midwives or community health extension workers and invited faculty members from each of the ...

Blog - Devika Chawla - July 2013 - 0 comments

... particular attention to issues of access and equity in health care. Nurses make up the bulk of the health workforce, especially in ... Due to mismatches between nursing education and community needs—as well as poor economic and professional opportunities—a ...

Blog - jennifer - June 2013 - 0 comments

The West African Health Organization (WAHO), WHO , the University of Oslo , Health ... open-source software while fostering a developer community,” says Carl Leitner of IntraHealth International, who will be ... core software solutions that address specific health worker challenges including: iHRIS : a suite of open source tools for ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - September 2010 - 0 comments

... DC office and serves as the CapacityPlus health workforce officer. Read more about Shaun's background in his expert ... two nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that focused on community-based maternal and child health. My NGO wo rk included a teaching ...

News - jennifer - December 2010 - 0 comments

CapacityPlus works with the Uganda Ministry of Health to enhance workforce performance support , including field testing ... develop education and training programs that focus on community orientation and cultivating intrinsic motivation. We need health ...

Blog - jennifer - June 2013 - 0 comments

I still find out most of my important health workforce information via word of mouth. Yes, I regularly read the ... body of evidence on how targeted student recruitment and community-based training could greatly increase retention of graduates in ... to be the first systematic multicountry study of health worker wages. None of us could have completed this important work by ourselves. ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2013 - 0 comments

... International, Senior Team Leader, Global Leadership and Health Workforce Effectiveness Wanda Jaskiewicz is a global health ... Jaskiewicz, Wanda, and Kate Tulenko. 2012. “Increasing community health worker productivity and effectiveness: A review of the ...

Page - Sarah Dwyer - November 2013 - 0 comments

... is the regional HR specialist with the Africa Christian Health Associations Platform, a position supported by Capacity Plus . She ... How are you helping the Christian Health Association community to learn from each other in terms of human resources for health ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - October 2010 - 0 comments

... in the country and cited as a Center of Excellence in community-supported, performance-based training. But during the country’s ... are urgently needed as the region struggles to rebuild its health system. Scholarships for students To help make it possible for ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - February 2014 - 0 comments

... daughter not much older than this and have had access to health care and qualified health workers that others have not. Throughout ... to volunteer locally to help address HIV/AIDS in my own community. How can we similarly move health leaders—from government officials ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2013 - 0 comments