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New Publication Spotlight: Interview with Rachel Deussom on Holding Health Workers Accountable: Governance Approaches to Reducing Absenteeism

... Spotlight: Interview with Rachel Deussom on Holding Health Workers Accountable: Governance Approaches to Reducing Absenteeism ... Absenteeism reduces access to quality care, erodes a community’s trust in the local facility and its providers, and impacts the ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - May 2012 - 0 comments

New Publication Spotlight: Keeping Up to Date: Continuing Professional Development for Health Workers in Developing Countries

... Up to Date: Continuing Professional Development for Health Workers in Developing Countries In order ... It can lead to improved health outcomes for the community. Yet to be effective, CPD programs must be carefully planned, ... quality but not absorbed or translated into health worker actions are of limited value. To learn more, read the technical ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - September 2012 - 0 comments

Serious Optimism: A Conversation with Constance Newman about Connecting Girls to School, and Women to the Paid Health Workforce

... IntraHealth’s senior team leader for gender equality and health and a committed advocate for social justice, to discuss this year’s ... predominantly female, particularly nurses, midwives, and community health workers. Many health workforce leaders question whether gender ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2013 - 0 comments

African Platform on Human Resources for Health “Walks the Talk”

... meeting of the African Platform on Human Resources for Health (APHRH). Capacity Plus staff Doris Mwarey participated in the ... migration and retention, leadership and management, and community health workers. Session highlights included: A progress ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - November 2010 - 0 comments

CapacityPlus Explores Mobile Health Strategies for Performance Support

... Capacity Plus Explores Mobile Health Strategies for Performance Support The ... Award—is supporting parasocial workers, a new cadre of community social worker serving the country’s most vulnerable children. To ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - June 2010 - 0 comments

Taking the E out of PEPFAR: Commemorating World AIDS Day 2013

... six letters symbolize one of the most significant global health commitments in history. The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS ... Plus supported scholarships for 1,345 midwives and 711 community health workers, all who were in their last year of training and ...

Blog - Carol Bales - December 2013 - 0 comments

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iHRIS Software Included in WHO Compendium of Innovative Technologies

The World Health Organization (WHO) included iHRIS —the open source health workforce ... to capture and manage nearly half a million health worker records, providing critical information to decision-makers to improve ... provides global technical support, coordination, and community building for the software and assists implementation directly in ...

News - david - January 2013 - 0 comments

Building an eHealth Workforce

... at the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Bangkok, Thailand. The session focused on developing and supporting ... strategies to the eHealth workforce Foster a community of eHealth innovation Develop and disseminate specific ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - March 2011 - 0 comments

Preventing AIDS Deaths Need Not Be a Fight: A Health Systems Approach

... in AIDS fight,” David Brown alleges that the goal of health systems strengthening is “hard-to-define.” In fact, it is not. ... doctor. In another case it could be the nurse, midwife, community health worker, pharmacist, or lab technician. Yet in every case, ...

Blog - jennifer - October 2010 - 0 comments