Presentations

This presentation reviews the global experience of contracting and discusses two spedific examples of contracting in Cambodia and Bangladesh.

This presentation was part of the ECSA Regional Health Ministers’ Conference. It describes why infection prevention and control is important and what can be done about it.


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This presentation was part of the International Conference on Global Health session, “Answering the Call: Innovations in Human Resources by African Faith-Based Organizations.” From the perspective of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau experience, the presentation discusses why the private not-for-profit sector is important in service provision and training; why nurses are in the midst of the human resource crisis; obastacles to increasing the training capacity; and what the PNFP health training institutions are doing to address their weaknesses. [adapted from author]

This presentation was part of the ECSA Workforce Observatory Meeting in Arusha. It describes the Africa Health Workforce Observatory as a cooperative initiative and partnership (public sector, NGO/ CSOs, academy, professional associations, international & subregional organizations, development partners) to improve human resources development through promoting and facilitating evidence-based policy-making. The presentation details the benefits and some of the functions of the Observatory such as: country monitoring and information; research and analysis; sharing and dissemination; promoting national and intercountry networking; and capacity building for HRH. [author’s description]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It reviews a study of how Rwanda, faced with constrained fiscal conditions, has implemented innovative reforms to create fiscal space for human resources and to make these resources more responsive to needs through an analysis of budget documents and policy and regulation changes and key informant interviews. [adapted from author]

The authors outline the crisis in Africa’s health workforce, why it matters, and the causes and solutions to the crisis including: HIV/AIDS, under-investment, and unmet healthworker needs. The presentation discusses the brain drain and the causes of health workforce migration. It also provides recommendations and solutions to the problem and a brief description of the current responses.

This presentation was given as part of the Christian Health Association’s Conference: CHAs at a Crossroad Towards Achieving Health Millennium Development Goals. It provides an excellent overview of the challenges of Malaria and HIV/AIDS ; discusses the human resource needs in light of these challenges; and how to build and maintain capacity. [from author’s description]

This presentation was part of the “Call to Action: Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health” conference. It discusses international migration of health workers, the ethical dimensions, immigration bans, barriers to integration of migrating health workers, and areas for intervention.

This presentation was part of the ECSA Workforce Observatory Meeting in Arusha. It argues that an established human resource information system is critical for proper human resource management. It discusses the process of implementing an HRIS system for nursing in Kenya and some of the lessons learned from this implementation.


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This presentation was part of the International Conference on Global Health session, “Integration and Application: Successes and Challenges in Health-Worker Training.” It talks about the need for supervision, the supervisory problems at the Health Center, the approaches taken to address the problem, improving supervisor skills, and monitoring.

This PowerPoint was presented at the 2007 GHC expert panel “Making it Work: Private Sector Partnerships to Improve Women’s Health.” It discusses the challenges, costs and results of a program to use private practitioners for improving maternal and child survival.

This presentation presents some of the issues concerning the effect of HIV/AIDS on the nursing and midwifery professions in the Commonwealth countries of east, central and southern Africa.


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As part of the East, Central and Southern African College of Nursing’s 7th Scientific Conference, this presentation describes the ethical considerations for health professionals in terms of conflict of interest. The author describes how this conflict can compromise effective health service delivery, defines some potential sources, gives information on available guiding global instruments, and makes recommendations for governments and health professionals on how to alleviate this problem. [adapted from author]

This presentation was part of the International Conference on Global Health session, “The Future is Here: Private Sector Contracting in Low-Income Countries.” It provides a review of the global experience in contracting, specific examples, a summary of the main issues with contracting and some take home messages.

This presentation discusses the various aspects of private providers as they pertain to contracting for health services. [from presentation]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines the internal and external environmental issues for district medical officers and describes what these officers need in terms of support.

This presentation was given as part of the Christian Health Association’s Conference: CHAs at a Crossroad Towards Achieving Health Millennium Development Goals. It introduces geographic information systems (GIS), human resource information systems (HRIS) and the Christian Social Services Commission (CSSC). It outlines the progress made in creating the systems, the benefits and reasons to have GIS and HRIS and presents the preliminary results in terms of health infrastructure, human resources and programs and interventions.

This presentation discusses the current climate and prospects for health partnerships between the private and public sectors in Africa. [from presentation]

This presentation was part of the ECSA Workforce Observatory Meeting in Arusha. It provides charts and data for the health workfoce in Africa, including statistics for: the distribution of health workers and health care cadres, estimated critical shortages, skill mix, and training institutions.


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This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the key features of the Problem-Based Learning/Community-Based Education and Service innovations to the health curricula at Makerere University, why they implemented these improvements and the benefits they have seen from the program.

This presentation was part of the ECSA Workforce Observatory Meeting in Arusha. It discusses quality control issues in data entry for a human resource information system.


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This presentation was part of the ECSA Workforce Observatory Meeting in Arusha. It describes an incentive scheme to help retain certain critical staff in the rural areas and to attract health workers to areas with inadequate staff.


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This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It gives definitions and frameworks, core competencies needed, examples of good practice, observations and future directions. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given as part of the Christian Health Association’s Conference: CHAs at a Crossroad Towards Achieving Health Millennium Development Goals. It discusses the human resources for health situation in Tanzania in general, and specific findings from the Lake zone in terms of health workers in church health institutions. The author proposes options for a motivation package to address the issues of retention for these workers.

As part of the East, Central and Southern African College of Nursing’s 7th Scientific Conference, this presentation describes a distance education project in Kenya that was designed to upgrade the compentencies of enrolled nurses to registered level. It outlines the rationale behind the upgrade, why distance education was selected, the implementation of the program, challenges, achievements and future plans.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It details the financial issues involved in scaling up health worker training such as the cost of hiring additional staff, educating health workers and expanding training capacity. It also outlines the current and possible future sources of increasing expenditure for health worker training. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses educational strategies for training health workers to scale up service delivery in Brazil.

This presentation discusses the field of nursing, how the profession is viewed by others, its weaknesses at the political and professional level and some of the challenges nurses face as managers and leaders.

This presentation was part of the 2006 Global Health Mini-University. This session highlights the need for greater investments in quality improvement in the private health sector. It also provides an overview of promising approaches and offers a detailed discussion of emerging accreditation models and other recognition systems for the private sector. [publisher’s description]


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This presentation was part of a International Conference on Global Health session, “Innovations in Human Resources: Strategies to Address the Health-Care Workers Shortage.” It discusses the context, the emergency hiring plan, strategies for finding local partners, design and implementation and lessons learned of Kenya’s emergency health workforce mobilization plan.