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Live from Uganda: Field Testing a Rapid Assessment Tool to Improve Health Worker Retention

... retention interventions for costing to inform Ministry of Health policy-making to improve attraction and retention of health workers in ... individual I’ve met is Gad Ruzaaza, coordinator for the Community Based Education Programme at Mbarara University of Science and ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - September 2013 - 0 comments

Scaling Up and Transforming Health Workforce Education and Training for Improved Health Equity

This post was originally published on the Global Health Workforce Alliance Members’ Platform . We encourage you to join ... used at more than 50 schools of nursing, midwifery, community health, and medicine in seven countries, the Capacity Plus ...

Blog - Carol Bales - April 2014 - 0 comments

Greater Support for the DRC’s Social Service Workers Leads to Better Care for Children

This post originally appeared on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition blog . A young boy—we’ll call him Mani—was ... the world are not as lucky. Although the global community has made tremendous progress in saving children’s lives over the ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2014 - 0 comments

Youth Can Take the Lead in Health Governance and Accountability

... of young people participated in the 67 th  World Health Assembly last month in Geneva, including young people from HIV-positive ... a unique opportunity.   They reside in every community. In fact, the poorest nations and communities with the least access ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2014 - 0 comments

Understanding Health Workforce Productivity at the Facility Level: A New eLearning Course

People drive health systems. In the words of Vujicic and colleagues, health workers are “ ... of all other resources .” The global health community recognizes that there is “ no health without a workforce .” ... Author photo courtesy of Rachel Deussom; health worker photos by Trevor Snapp, courtesy of IntraHealth International ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - October 2014 - 0 comments

Why Would I Go There? Motivating Workers to Take and Keep Jobs in Rural Areas

... situation, with benefits for both the worker and the community served. To address this issue of job attraction and retention in the health sector, Capacity Plus has helped ministries of health and NGOs answer ...

Resource - Sarah Dwyer - February 2015 - 0 comments

Hitting the (Super) Target: Shopping for Tools for Health System Success

... moment, there are likely dozens of international health professionals working on the development or revision of tools, ranging ... HRH tools like the Health Care Improvement Project’s Community Health Worker Program Assessment and Improvement Matrix (CHW-AIM) ...

Blog - Carol Bales - January 2012 - 0 comments

"Exchange Information and Experiences”: Gathering and Sharing Health Worker Data in West Africa

... Information and Experiences": Gathering and Sharing Health Worker Data in West Africa Capacity Plus ... Organization (WAHO) , which was created by the Economic Community of West African States and serves its 15 member countries. ...

News - jeremy - June 2010 - 0 comments

Building Local Skills to Support the Open Source iHRIS Software

... open source iHRIS software to manage and plan their health workforce. Capacity Plus , along with other USAID projects led by ... university’s iHRIS Administrator course via the iHRIS Community Google Group , Dr. Lungo began receiving inquiries from iHRIS ...

News - Carol Bales - February 2014 - 0 comments

Haiti Prioritizes Human Resources for Health

On Wednesday, I attended the Global Health Council Conference plenary session entitled "After the Earthquake: ... workers that are currently in particularly high demand: community health workers, midwives, and nurse anesthesiologists.Dr. Larsen also ... challenges to health care delivery. The issue of health worker retention must also be addressed in the face of low public sector ...

Blog - jennifer - January 2014 - 0 comments