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    Improving access to skilled attendance at delivery: full report

    The purpose of this report is to inform deliberations among policymakers and stakeholders. It summarises the best available evidence regarding the design and implementation of policies for extending the use of non-medically trained primary health care workers to deliver cost-effective maternal and child ...

    Strategies de reduction de la mortalite maternelle en Republique Centrafricaine

    Mortalité maternelle est un grave problème de santé publique en RCA avec un taux de 1355 décès pour 100.000 naissances vivantes. Quatre principales difficultés sont à la base de ce problème: a) Difficultés liées à l´accès aux soins. b) Difficultés liées à l´insuffisance et à la réparti...

    WHO recommendations: optimizing health worker roles to improve access to key maternal and newborn health interventions through task shifting

    Human resource shortages in the health services are widely acknowledged as a threat to the attainment of the healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Attempts to optimize the potential of the existing health workforce are therefore crucial. A more rational distribution of tasks and responsibili...

    Maintenir la présence des personnels soignants dans les formations sanitaires rurales enclavées au Cameroun résumé d'orientation

    Cette note d´information stratégique a été préparée à la demande de la Direction des Ressources Humaines du Ministère de la Santé Publique pour informer les délibérations préparatoires à l´élaboration de la stratégie nationale de développement des ressources humaines pour la santé. Elle...

    Policy dialogue on task shifting for health workers in maternal and child healthcare: report

    This dialogue to discuss the policy brief which outlines health policy options using the current research evidence is a fulfillment of one of UNHRO?s responsibilities of supporting evidence-based policy decisions. It was noted that there is an acute shortage of human resources for health in Africa and Ug...

    Soutenir l’utilisation des évidences scientifiques issues de la recherche pour l’élaboration des politiques dans les systèmes de santé en Afrique

    Au Burkina Faso, la promotion de la santé de la mère et de l'enfant a toujours fait partie du paquet d'activités développé par les services de santé. Cependant, l'efficacité de ces nombreuses interventions reste très faible surtout en termes d'impact sur la mortalité maternelle et néonatale. Pr...

    Task shifting to optimise the roles of health workers to improve the delivery of maternal and child healthcare: executive summary

    There is a shortage and maldistribution of medically trained health professionals. These are important reasons why cost-effective MCH services are not available to over half the population of Uganda and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for MCH is slow. Optimising the roles of less specia...

    Using audit and feedback to health professionals to improve the quality and safety of health care

    There is now extensive evidence demonstrating that there is a gap between the health care that patients receive and the practice that is recommended. In both primary and secondary care there are unwarranted variations in practice and in resulting outcomes that cannot be explained by the characteristics o...

    How to create an attractive and supportive working environment for health professionals

    European countries face common challenges in ensuring a well-performing health workforce in times of existing and projected shortages. One of the multiple aspects that determine the supply and performance of health workers is the work environment, which plays a critical role. Given the demographic change...