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The retention of health workers in rural and remote areas in Mozambique

The number of health workers in Mozambique is insufficient to enable the achievement of the country‟s population health goals. This problem is compounded by the uneven distribution of health care works by province and by area of residence, and by a weak and under-resourced national health system which ...

Optimizing the use of antenatal care services in Cameroon

This brief is a contribution to deliberations aiming at fostering the use of antenatal care (ANC) services by pregnant women in order to reach the optimum recommended by WHO (e.g., four prenatal visits, one per quarter including one just before delivery) within the framework of the Campaign for the Accel...

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 ...

Policy summary 4: health system performance comparison: an agenda for policy, information and research

International health system performance comparisons have the potential to provide a rich source of evidence as well as policy influence.• Country comparisons that are not conducted with properly validated measures and unbiased policy interpretations may prompt adverse policy impacts and so caution is r...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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) ...