Planning

The People That Deliver Initiative: Namibia’s Integrated Actions to Improve the Health Supply Chain Management Workforce

david — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:37:57 +0000

Author's name:

Rebecca Bailey, Erin Hasselberg, Rachel Deussom, Maritza Titus, Benjamin Ongeri, Abre Van Buren, and Richard Seifman

September 2015 (All day)

The People That Deliver Initiative: Namibia’s Integrated Actions to Improve the Health Supply Chain Management Workforce

In November 2013, Namibia's Minister of Health presented a formal request to the People that Deliver (PtD) Board and member institutions for technical support to develop a sustainable strategy to improve access to health commodities. Led by the government of Namibia and supported by expertise from the People that Deliver Initiative and its members, notably the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded Supply Chain Management System project and CapacityPlus, the PtD-Namibia collaboration sought to understand and improve Namibia’s public sector health supply chain management workforce, focusing on the Ministry of Health and Social Services' immediate priority: staff at the central medical store and regional medical depots. This synthesis report documents the PtD-Namibia collaboration’s findings and outcomes in five priority activity areas as well as its collective results, all of which have great potential to have a positive impact on the country’s supply chain management workforce development and planning.

The Health Workforce Information Ecosystem: Strengthening Connections between Health Workforce Information Domains and e/mHealth Technologies

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:20:40 +0000

Author's name:

Dykki Settle, Carl Leitner, and Luke Duncan

November 2014 (All day)

The Health Workforce Information Ecosystem

Health workforce information systems have been proliferating in countries to address different health workforce needs, including management systems in the public and private sector, regulatory information systems including professional council registration and licensure, and training information systems. However, these different systems are not reaching their full potential due to failure to work as an interoperable whole. Presented at the GETHealth Summit in Dublin, Ireland (November 13–14, 2014), this poster describes work to develop a new data exchange standard, Care Services Discovery. This technology is open and collaborative, available for support by a wide variety of technologies, including iHRIS, DHIS 2, and UNICEF’s RapidPro platform. Open source technologies and open standards approaches make a formidable combination to address information needs.

Recruitment of Community Health Workers

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:26:04 +0000

Author's name:

Wanda Jaskiewicz and Rachel Deussom

July 2014 (All day)

Recruitment of Community Health Workers

This chapter by CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International authors appears in MCHIP’s publication, Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policymakers, which provides an in-depth review of issues and questions that should be considered when addressing key issues relevant for large-scale community health worker programs. Chapter 8 considers key questions, recommendations, and challenges for community health worker recruitment planning and implementation, including selection, resource availability, and retention.

Establishing and Using Data Standards in Health Workforce Information Systems

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 27 May 2014 14:27:43 +0000

Author's name:

Dykki Settle, Michael Webba Lwetabe, Amanda Puckett, and Carl Leitner

May 2014 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #13 (PDF)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #13 (Interactive Version)

Human resources information systems are successful when they support policy and management decisions and when those decisions lead to better health care. However, success depends on the quality of the human resources for health data going into the system. The aim of this technical brief is to convey why data standards matter. The authors review organizational, national, and international data standards that can help ensure data quality, provide country examples, and discuss the key role of multisectoral stakeholder leadership groups in formulating and reaching consensus on standards.

iHRIS Train: An Open Source Tool for Managing Health Worker Training

Carol Bales — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:37:15 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

January 2014 (All day)

iHRIS Train Overview

An overview of iHRIS Train, open source software for managing data on the education of health professionals. iHRIS Train is part of the iHRIS software for health workforce management.

Applying the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) Method in Namibia: Challenges and Implications for Human Resources for Health Policy

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:22:23 +0000

Author's name:

Pamela A. McQuide, Riitta-Liisa Kolehmainen-Aitken, and Norbert Forster

December 2013 (All day)

Human Resources for Health

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the first-ever national application of the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) tool developed by the World Health Organization. The article describes the steps involved in implementing WISN, a human resources management tool, in Namibia, discusses software and data challenges, summarizes key findings relating to health worker shortages and inequities, and reviews the utility of the WISN findings for policy-makers in Namibia. The authors observe that the WISN method can offer credible workload-based evidence to improve the equity and distribution of health workers within a region or across similar types of facilities nationwide. Perhaps most importantly, the WISN tool allows policy-makers to consider the potential impact of decisions on staff requirements before actually making the decisions.

Championing a Regional Approach to Health Workforce Planning and Management

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:09:19 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International

August 2012 (All day)

Championing a Regional Approach to Health Workforce Planning and Management

This profile of Professor Kayode Odusote draws on CapacityPlus’s technical brief, West Africa’s Regional Approach to Strengthening Health Workforce Information. It is part of the Aspen Institute’s Council Conversation Series: Stories and Solutions.

iHRIS Manage: A Tool for Managing the Health Workforce

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:15:33 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

May 2013 (All day)

iHRIS Manage Overview

An overview of iHRIS Manage, the HR management component of the iHRIS Suite. Using iHRIS Manage, decision-makers at the Ministry of Health, a district health office, or a health care facility can collect, manage, and analyze detailed information about employed health workers and applicants.

iHRIS Qualify: A Tool for Tracking Health Professionals and Their Qualifications

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:15:04 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

May 2013 (All day)

iHRIS Qualify Overview

An overview of iHRIS Qualify, the health professional training, licensing, and certification component of the iHRIS Suite.

iHRIS Retain: A Tool to Cost Retention Strategies

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:09:38 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

January 2013 (All day)

iHRIS Retain Overview

An overview of iHRIS Retain, a user-friendly tool to cost retention strategies to be implemented at the district, regional, or national level.

iHRIS Retain: Herramienta para calcular los costos de las estrategias de retención

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:53:59 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

May 2011 (All day)

iHRIS Retain Overview (Spanish)

Spanish translation of an overview of iHRIS Retain, a user-friendly tool to cost retention strategies to be implemented at the district, regional, or national level.

iHRIS Qualify: Uma Ferramenta para Efectuar o Registo dos Profissionais de Saúde e das Suas Qualificações

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:55:13 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

March 2011 (All day)

iHRIS Qualify Overview (Portuguese)

Portuguese translation of an overview of iHRIS Qualify, the health professional training, licensing, and certification component of the iHRIS Suite.

iHRIS Manage: Uma Ferramenta para a Gestão da Mão-de-Obra de Saúde

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:49:54 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

March 2011 (All day)

iHRIS Manage Overview (Portuguese)

Portuguese translation of an overview of iHRIS Manage, the HR management component of the iHRIS Suite. Using iHRIS Manage, decision-makers at the Ministry of Health, a district health office, or a health care facility can collect, manage, and analyze detailed information about employed health workers and applicants.

Strengthening HRIS

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:19:00 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

November 2010 (All day)

HRIS Overview

An overview of CapacityPlus's approach to human resources information systems (HRIS) strengthening.

Tracking and Monitoring the Health Workforce: A New Human Resources Information System (HRIS) in Uganda

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:05:01 +0000

Author's name:

Julie C. Spero, Pamela A. McQuide, Rita Matte

February 2011 (All day)

Human Resources for Health

This article draws on work from the Capacity Project, the predecessor to CapacityPlus. It describes Uganda’s transition from a paper filing system for health workers to an electronic human resources information system (HRIS) capable of providing information about country-specific health workforce questions, and how HRIS data can be used in workforce planning.