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Health workforce innovation: accelerating private sector responses to the human resources for health crisis

Issued by an international group of experts in health and private sector, this report stresses the importance of the private sector in responding to the HRH crisis and the need for further health workforce innovation, that increased the supply, improved the effectiveness of health workers.Recommendations...

Promoting access to high quality primary health care services in Sudan

Sudan health system is based on the district health system approach, which emphasizes the principles of primary health care (PHC). Nevertheless, the decentralization of the public sector resulted in more deterioration of the PHC system particularly in rural and peripheral areas due to lack of financial r...

All the Talents: how new roles and better teamwork can release potential and improve health services

Led by Lord Nigel Crisp, (Member of House of Lords (UK) and champion of the Global Health Workforce Alliance), the All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) on Global Health and Africa launched a new report "All the Talents". The report looks at how innovations in the skill mix of health workers can improve ...

Keeping up to date: continuing professional development for health workers in developing countries

In order for health workers to provide quality care and meet their communities’ changing health care needs, they must become lifelong learners dedicated to updating their professional knowledge, skills, values, and practice. Continuing professional development (CPD) encompasses all of the activities th...

Better outcomes, lower costs: palliative care program reduces stress, costs of care for children with life-threatening conditions

This policy brief examines the Partners for Children (PFC) program—California’s public pediatric community-based palliative care benefit to children living with life-threatening conditions and their families. Preliminary analysis of administrative and survey data indicates that participation in the P...

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...

Retaining human resources for health in remote rural areas in Cameroon: executive summary

This policy brief was prepared at the request of the Human Resources Directorate of the Ministry of Public Health to inform the deliberations leading to the development of the national strategic plan for the health workforce. It describes the magnitude, the consequences and the underlying factors of the ...

Maintenir la présence des personnels soignants dans les formations sanitaires rurales enclavées au Cameroun

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 dan...

Evidence Brief: organizing a care system for older adults in Ontario

The health of the aging population has been identified as a high priority for the province of Ontario and has become one of the province’s most pressing health and social policy issues.(1) In addition, healthcare expenditures in Ontario now exceed 46% of the provincial government’s annual budget.(2) ...

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...