Productivity

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

david — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:31:54 +0000

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

Author's name:

Kate Tulenko

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Overview: End-of-Project Event

An overview presentation on the project's results and lessons learned delivered at the CapacityPlus end-of-project event in Arlington, Virginia, on September 17, 2015.

Strengthening the Health Workforce for Improved Services: Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015

david — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:38:18 +0000

Strengthening the Health Workforce for Improved Services: Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Final Report

The CapacityPlus final report details the project’s achievements in supporting country-led progress in health professional education, human resources management and leadership, use of health workforce data for decision-making, health workforce retention and productivity, professionalizing under-recognized cadres of health workers, monitoring and evaluation, and addressing gender equality in health systems.

Christian Health Association of Malawi: General Report of the Health Workforce Productivity Assessment and Early Progress on Implementation of Improvement Interventions

david — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:53:05 +0000

Author's name:

Elled Mwenyekonde, Mwai Makoka, Theresa Nyamupachitu, Doris Mwarey, and Wanda Jaskiewicz

July 2015 (All day)

Christian Health Association of Malawi: General Report of the Health Workforce Productivity Assessment and Early Progress on Implementation of Improvement Interventions

Health workforce productivity measures the number of health services produced by health workers in a given period of time. Assessing health workforce productivity at the health facility level is a key step for developing and implementing effective improvement strategies. The Christian Health Association of Malawi, in collaboration with CapacityPlus, conducted a productivity assessment through a field test of CapacityPlus's Health Workforce Productivity Analysis and Improvement Toolkit. This report presents findings from the assessment as well as early progress from implementation of the improvement interventions through June 2015.

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

david — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:30:54 +0000

Author's name:

Wanda Jaskiewicz and Rachel Deussom

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Legacy Series #4

CapacityPlus built the capacity of national human resources for health (HRH) leaders and managers in Uganda, Laos, and Malawi to use the project’s retention and productivity tools to generate evidence and inform decisions to influence policy-making and improve the availability of services through increased staffing and distribution.

Health Workforce Productivity Analysis and Improvement Toolkit

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:37:43 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

February 2015 (All day)

Health Workforce Productivity Analysis and Improvement Toolkit

The health workforce is critical for ensuring access to high-quality family planning/reproductive health, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, and other services in order to improve health outcomes. While increasing the number of health workers where there are shortages is essential, it is equally important to improve the productivity of the existing workforce and make service delivery more efficient. The Health Workforce Productivity Analysis and Improvement Toolkit describes a step-wise process to measure the productivity of facility-based health workers, understand the underlying causes of productivity problems, and identify potential interventions to address them. Users can enter and save facility-level data on service delivery outputs and human resources costs in order to calculate total health workforce productivity and compare these rates across facilities. This process differentiates higher-productivity facilities from lower-productivity ones, which through a qualitative assessment can help managers and supervisors to consider which factors are affecting health workforce productivity in the facilities.

Health Workforce Productivity: An Approach for Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:29:03 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom and Wanda Jaskiewicz

September 2014 (All day)

Health Workforce Productivity

Increasing health workers’ productivity will make service delivery more efficient and ensure that high-quality family planning, reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, maternal and child health and other key services are accessible to the population. This free course on the Global Health eLearning Center, by CapacityPlus’s Rachel Deussom and Wanda Jaskiewicz of IntraHealth International, explores some basic concepts of health workforce productivity. It provides useful descriptions of a quantitative, formulaic approach for measuring productivity at the facility level; possible underlying causes of low productivity and methods to measure them; and potential interventions to improve productivity and strengthen health services. It takes approximately two hours to complete the course, after which each learner will receive a certificate.

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

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:51:33 +0000

Author's name:

Joseph Kundy, Tana Wuliji, Anna Nswila, Paul Magesa, and Davis Rumisha

February 2014 (All day)

The 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.

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

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:00:42 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

February 2014 (All day)

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:

Examining Potential for Quality Improvement in the Three Gaps

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:29:10 +0000

Author's name:

Kenneth Leonard

February 2014 (All day)

Examining Potential for Quality Improvement in the Three Gaps

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.

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

david — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:06:47 +0000

Author's name:

Diana Frymus and Sarah Smith Lunsford

February 2014 (All day)

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

Moving Forward with the Health Labor Market Agenda

david — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:04:46 +0000

Author's name:

Edson Araújo

February 2014 (All day)

Moving Forward with the Health Labor Market Agenda

Managing Dual Job Holding among Health Workers

david — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:02:57 +0000

Author's name:

Edson Araújo

February 2014 (All day)

Managing Dual Job Holding among Health Workers

Increasing Community Health Worker Productivity and Effectiveness: A Review of the Influence of the Work Environment

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:40:28 +0000

Author's name:

Wanda Jaskiewicz and Kate Tulenko

September 2012 (All day)

Human Resources for Health

Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly recognized as a critical link in improving access to services and achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals. Given the financial and human resources constraints in developing countries, CHWs are expected to do more without necessarily receiving the needed support to do their jobs well. This article in Human Resources for Health presents policy-makers and program managers with key considerations for a model to improve the work environment as an important approach to increase CHW productivity and, ultimately, the effectiveness of community-based strategies.

Ensuring a Positive Practice Environment: Occupational Safety and Health for Health Worker Productivity

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:04:04 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom, Wanda Jaskiewicz, Elizabeth Adams, and Kate Tulenko

August 2012 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #4 (PDF)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #4 (Interactive Version)

Providing high-quality health care should not be hazardous to the health worker. Health workers are adversely affected by numerous occupational safety and health (OSH) hazards they face on the job. Effective OSH measures contribute to national workforce health and productivity, but only 5%-10% of workers in developing countries have adequate OSH services. This technical brief outlines ways to make health workers’ safety a higher-level policy issue and shows how to create working environments that prioritize occupational health.

Access the interactive version or the PDF. Also read the related news and blog post. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us.

Linking Challenges, Sharing Solutions: The Global Crisis in Human Resources for Health

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:27:45 +0000

Author's name:

Barbara Stilwell, David Nelson

January 2011 (All day)

North Carolina Medical Journal

This journal article suggests that strategies for remedying the global health workforce crisis could also be useful in North Carolina. The article points to specific resources such as the HRH Global Resource Center, the Learning for Performance methodology for in-service training, and the HRH Action Framework and website.