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Why Nigeria’s Response to Ebola Succeeded

... an effective response. I think if this had happened in a rural area or town the outcome may have been different. Even the political and ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - October 2014 - 0 comments

Health Professional School Leaders Are Critical in National Health Planning and Policies for Emerging Epidemics

... to the sparse realties of frontline health clinics in rural areas and can work to recruit more qualified students from underserved ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - September 2014 - 0 comments

“I Made Some Changes”: A Nurse/Midwife’s Experience with Leadership and Management Training

... a bit appalling.” That’s what conditions at her rural health center felt like to Habiba Shaban Agong, a senior nursing officer ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - August 2014 - 0 comments

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... He has worked with primary health care facilities in rural communities and conducted capacity-building programs for state and local ... 1-8.      Onovo, A., et al. 2012. Rural community mobilization: A strategy to accelerated PMTCT uptake in Cross ...

Page - Carol Bales - June 2014 - 0 comments

The Oft-Overlooked Job Description

... for example, a highly congested urban clinic and a remote rural clinic. In theory, their nurses will share similar job descriptions, but ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - August 2014 - 0 comments

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... for the retention of health workers in remote and rural areas.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 91, no. 11: ... and Kate Tulenko. 2013. “Net costs of health worker rural incentive packages: An example from the Lao People’s Democratic ... and Kate Tulenko. 2013. “Differences in preferences for rural job postings between nursing students and practicing nurses: Evidence ...

Page - Sarah Dwyer - November 2013 - 0 comments

Faith-Based Organizations: Serving and Uniting the Health Sector

... provide approximately 40-70% of health care. Rural and isolated areas As has been noted, these mission and faith-based ... have a long history of providing services in the most rural and isolated parts of the countries—places where government health care ...

Blog - jennifer - November 2010 - 0 comments

Money Matters! A New Costing Tool for Health Worker Retention

... challenge is attracting and retaining health workers in rural and remote areas where health services are mostly scanty. Let me quote ... Approximately one half of the global population lives in rural areas, but these areas are served by only 38% of the total nursing ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - October 2010 - 0 comments

Your Voice: Frontline Health Workers Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health Progress

... to focus on deploying trained and supported workers to rural and other underserved communities. In fact, a recent Johns Hopkins School ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2014 - 0 comments

How Can Countries Scale Up Education of Health Workers to Meet Health Care Needs?

... a challenge. Further, graduates are unlikely to work in rural and remote areas where the need for health workers is greatest.  ... for health worker education. Locate schools in rural or underserved areas, and actively recruit and retain students from rural ...

News - Carol Bales - August 2012 - 0 comments