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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Réduction de la mortalité infanto-juvénile par une meilleure prise en charge de la malnutrition et du VIH

En RCA, il est globalement ressorti des différents rapports de suivi des indicateurs des OMD que les progrès sont les plus lents en ce qui concerne l’OMD1 (Eradiquer l’extrême pauvreté et la faim), l´OMD 4 (Réduire la mortalité des enfants de moins de 5 ans), l’OMD 5 (Améliorer la santé ma...

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 ...

Evidence brief: coordinating the use of genetic tests and related services in British Columbia

Rapid technological advances in genetics and genomics hold promise for the diagnosis, treatment and even prevention of common and rare diseases. Nevertheless, they also raise concerns regarding their potential impacts on health systems, which has led many countries to reflect on the optimal models to coo...