Presentations

This presentation was a part of a 2009 Global Health Mini-University and covers acheiving health information for all; defining knowledge for health; information needs, capacity and delivery preferences of health professionals; and extending the reach and use of health information. [adapted from author]

This presentation for the APHA Annual Meeting illustrates the use of geographic and health information systems to identify gaps in service delivery and vaccination coverage in Yemen in order to assign human and technical resources.

This presentation provides an overview of the health workforce in Africa, the causes of the workforce crisis and solutions, financing the health workforce and global attention to the issues. [from author]

This presentation dicusses the import of task shifting to providing health care and AIDS treatment programs to low-resource countries in Africa using Mozambique as an example.

This session will focus on different model programs incorporating novel techniques to optimize training of health workers. Discussion will include the realities of brain drain, health worker migration, and maintaining a vibrant health workforce. [from author]

This presentation addresses health workforce supply and distribution issues and stakeholders, as well as the consequences of inaction in resolving these issues.

This presentation provides the detailed findings of a global survey undertaken to provide a better understanding of challenges, opportunities and viewpoints in the field of nursing.

This presentation from the 2004 Seminar on Health and Migration details the effects of the international migration of Ghanian healthcare workers and the impact the Diaspora could have on the problem.

This presentation from the 2004 Seminar on Health and Migration details factors contributing to international migration of healthcare workers and strategies to counter this trend.

This presentation outlines a methodology to improve quality and accessibility of health care with greater involvement of the community in defining, implementing and monitoring the quality improvement process.

This presentation outlines a new vision of supportive supervision that is an ongoing process, forges relationships within the system and reinforces quality outcomes at all levels. [adapted from author]

This presentation discusses the QIQ method of evaluating the quality of service delivery and provider performance.

This presentation defines the components of health worker guidelines, explores the impact on maximizing access and quality, and describes the best practices in creating health worker guidelines. [adapted from author]

This presentation provides the results of studies designed to ascertain which Ghanaian trainee health professionals are more likely to emigrate, as well as the rationale for these choices. It also attempts to identify potential areas for policy intervention in order to moderate the benefits and costs of both the long-term and short-term impact of this situation.

This presentation chronicles the emigration patterns of Ghanaian health professionals and the effects on that country's own health services. There is a specific focus on the emigration expectations of Ghanaian trainee health personnel, as well as offering suggestions for potential methods for addressing the situation.

This presentation offers the findings of a study assessing how policies in richer countries impact least-developed countries, specifically regarding skilled labour migration.

This presentation details issues surrounding the recruitment and utilization of foreign health professionals in the UK.

This presentation covers trends in the out-migration of health professionals as well as the impact on HRH.

This presentation describes perspectives on the out-migration of health professionals in Africa.

This presentation offers the results of a study examining organizational and institutional perspectives on international labor migration, as well as a case study on nurse migration and recruitment from the Philippines to the U.S.

This presentation addresses issues pertaining to nurse migration in the UK including trends, patterns and the impact of soft regulation.

This presentation explores the primary characteristics of the migrant labor force in the UK healthcare sector, including the implications for policies regulating migration and the care sector.

This presentation describes the findings of the Health Workforce and Migration project and their implications. It includes information on recent trends and policies, as well as new evidence on the stock of foreign-born health professionals and nurses in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

This presentation describes the potential effects of using telemedicine to provide relevant medical knowledge in order to assist physicians in patient care.

This presentation was part of the Mobility, Training and Supply of Health Workers Worshop. It discusses the state of nurse training and mobility and the policy considerations in Bangladesh.

This presentation covers the proces of developing a regional guideline for country strategic planning, results from a situational analysis, a draft regional guideline and the next steps. [adapted from author]

This presentation provdes users with a process for accomplishing an HRH situation analysis by identifying key information and through familiarization with analytical models to identify problems.

This presentation discusses the importance of HRH in the Sudanese health sector and provides sample tables for collecting relevant HRH statistics.

This presentation covers the state of the health workforce in Ethiopia and defines the crisis in health worker coverage including numerous charts and staistics that track the decline in the number of doctors.

This presentation outlines the work on retention, incentives and positive practice environments as it relates to the Kampala Declaration.