Health Workforce

CapacityPlus End-of-Project Event Agenda

david — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:35:34 +0000

CapacityPlus End-of-Project Event Agenda

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus End-of-Project Event Agenda

Agenda for the CapacityPlus end-of-project event on September 17, 2015, in Arlington, Virginia.

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.

Advancing Gender Equality in Health Systems

david — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:15:14 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom, Constance Newman, Alfredo Fort, Laura Hurley, and Alex Collins

September 2015 (All day)

CapacityPlus Legacy Series #7

CapacityPlus developed learning tools to address the challenges of gender inequalities and discrimination in the health workforce and health professional education systems and promote gender-transformative principles in advocacy, policy-making, and program
implementation.

Strengthening the Supply Chain Management Workforce in Namibia: Applying the WISN Method to Estimate Staffing Needs

david — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Author's name:

Maritza Titus and Benjamin Ongeri

May 2015 (All day)

Strengthening the Supply Chain Management Workforce in Namibia: Applying the WISN Method to Estimate Staffing Needs

People that Deliver is a global initiative that aims to address human resources inefficiencies in the public health supply chain. With the challenges faced in Namibia, the Ministry of Health and Social Services requested that People that Deliver pilot, with support from CapacityPlus, an integrated set of interventions to strengthen the supply chain management workforce. One of these interventions was to estimate the types and numbers of supply chain workers needed at central and regional medical stores based on the estimated workload. The World Health Organization’s Workload Indicators of Staffing Needs (WISN) tool was used to estimate the required number of pharmacists, pharmacist assistants, and clerks required at the national and regional levels of the supply chain. The findings, which indicated shortages in all three cadres of supply chain personnel, are presented in this report.

Evaluating Community-Based Medical Education Programmes in Africa: A Workshop Report

david — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:19:07 +0000

Author's name:

R J Bailey, R K Baingana, I D Couper, C B Deery, D Nestel, H Ross, A S Sagay, Z M Talib

May 2015 (All day)

African Journal of Health Professions Education

PEPFAR's Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) supports medical schools in Africa to increase the capacity and quality of medical education, improve retention of graduates, and promote regionally relevant research. Many MEPI programmes include elements of community-based education (CBE) such as: community placements; clinical rotations in underserved locations, community medicine, or primary health; situational analyses; or student-led research.CapacityPlus and the MEPI Coordinating Center conducted a workshop to share good practices for CBE evaluation, identify approaches that can be used for CBE evaluation in the African context, and strengthen a network of CBE collaborators.This report describes key insights from the workshop, and highlights plans for CBE evaluation among the MEPI institutions.This workshop clearly demonstrated the widespread interest in improving CBE evaluation efforts and a need to develop, implement, and disseminate rigorous approaches and tools relevant to the African context.

Compendium of Approaches and Tools for Expanding High-Quality Health Workforce Education and Training

david — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:16:14 +0000

Author's name:

Rebecca Bailey, Heather Ross, and Kate Tulenko

August 2015 (All day)

Compendium of Approaches and Tools for Expanding High-Quality Health Workforce Education and Training

This compendium categorizes and describes approaches and tools that national stakeholders can use to address common challenges in expanding high-quality education and training. It lists sources of globally-recognized, evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for scaling up and transforming health professional education. It then suggests resources to support the implementation of those recommendations, categorized in relation to the health workforce production pipeline framework.

Gender Equality and Health Workforce Development Advocacy Tool

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:19:04 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

December 2014 (All day)

This forthcoming online tool focuses on aspects of gender discrimination in health workforce development specifically related to preservice education, such as issues affecting health professional students and faculty. If you would like us to contact you when we publish this tool, please let us know.

The Dean’s Dashboard: Strengthening School Management through Information and Informed Decision-Making

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:32:15 +0000

Author's name:

David Potenziani, Jehu Iputo, Rebecca Bailey, Carl Leitner, Heather Ross, and Jørn Braa

November 2014 (All day)

The Dean’s Dashboard

Health workforce educational institutions are struggling to meet the increasing demand for health workers capable of providing quality health services to expanding populations. More effective and efficient management of education and training institutions can play a major role in a country’s ability to scale up its production of competent and qualified health workers. Presented at the GETHealth Summit in Dublin, Ireland (November 13–14, 2014), this poster describes findings from a pilot of the Dean’s Dashboard at three schools in Africa. When aligned with a school’s strategic planning efforts, the Dean’s Dashboard offers the potential for regular reports on progress toward strategic goals as well as management information in a form that is easily accessible to institutional leaders. As an open source application, it is an affordable tool for information management and presentation.

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.

Using Evidence for Human Resources for Health Decision-Making: An Example from Uganda on Health Workforce Recruitment and Retention

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:43:32 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom and Wanda Jaskiewicz

September 2014 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #15 (PDF)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #15 (Interactive Version)

A strong and well-distributed health workforce is necessary for providing access to high-quality health care and achieving national and global health goals. Developing and implementing policies to effectively address health workforce challenges demands relevant data for evidence-based decision-making. This technical brief offers six recommendations to help national stakeholders transform evidence into policy decisions and subsequent action. Using an example from Uganda, the authors illustrate how the development and sharing of evidence can support decision-making for change in health workforce recruitment and retention policies, toward the aim of improving access to high-quality health care for the population.

Gender and Health Systems Strengthening

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:53:02 +0000

Author's name:

Constance Newman

June 2014 (All day)

Gender and Health Systems Strengthening

This free course on the Global Health eLearning Center is authored by CapacityPlus’s Constance Newman of IntraHealth International. The course is intended to assist USAID field-based health officers, foreign service nationals, and US government partners to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in health systems strengthening efforts. By the end of the course, the learner will understand how health systems components interact with each other, how gender plays a role in each health systems component, and how to address these gender issues in health systems strengthening activities in order to improve health and social outcomes. CapacityPlus’s Crystal Ng and Ann Yang of IntraHealth International served as course managers along with Nandini Jayarajan and Lisa Mwaikambo of JHU∙CCP.

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.

“I’m a Health Worker”

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:17:28 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

May 2012 (All day)

Video series

This series of one-minute videos features health workers around the world who speak from the heart about their jobs. CapacityPlus created this series to highlight how the project places health workers at the center of its efforts to address the global health workforce shortage.

Applying Stakeholder Leadership Group Guidelines in Ghana: A Case Study

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:53:58 +0000

Author's name:

James McCaffery, Amanda Puckett, Kathy Alison, and Paul Marsden

September 2013 (All day)

Applying Stakeholder Leadership Group Guidelines in Ghana

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana faces health worker shortages, limiting the country’s likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Working together with the stakeholders and partners that make up the Ghanaian health care system, CapacityPlus supported the revitalization of the Ghana Health Workforce Observatory to address key human resources for health issues. This case study discusses the steps taken to revitalize the observatory through the application of Guidelines for Forming and Sustaining Human Resources for Health Stakeholder Leadership Groups. Success factors that contributed to the Observatory’s revitalization are highlighted, along with challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations.

WHO Country Assessment Tool on the Uses and Sources for Human Resources for Health (HRH) Data

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:16:49 +0000

Author's name:

World Health Organization

October 2012 (All day)

WHO Country Assessment Tool on the Uses and Sources for HRH Data

There is widespread recognition of the need for accurate, timely, and effective human resources for health (HRH) data to inform the development of policies on HRH. However, many countries have weak information systems that can generate these data. This diagnostic tool contains questions intended to gather information on the uses, type, and quality of data on HRH at the institutional level in countries. The resulting information can then be used to identify priorities and develop strategies to strengthen human resources information systems at the district, regional, or national level. CapacityPlus contributed to the development of this resource through the WHO Health Workforce Information Reference Group (HIRG).