Developing a Human Resources for Health (HRH) Effort Index to Measure Country-Level Inputs in HRH

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:29:27 +0000

Author's name:

Alfredo L. Fort, Randi Burlew, Rachel Deussom, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis

October 2014 (All day)

Current indicators used to measure efforts and progress in HRH are limited and often unreliable. These limitations constrain country, donor, and program efforts to identify and address gaps in HRH and to track progress over time. CapacityPlus developed the HRH Effort Index to enable countries, program implementers, and donors to more readily assess and measure national HRH inputs and potentially to predict workforce performance, service use, and quality. Presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 2, 2014, this poster presents preliminary results of pilot testing of the HRH Effort Index in Kenya and Nigeria in May and June 2014.