Presentations

This presentation was part of the WHO-OECD Hosted Dialogue on migration and other
health workforce issues in a global economy. It discusses the cost of providing the minimum number of health workers for developing countries in terms of increasing the production of health workers, taking into account the diversity and competencies of health workers, and augmenting financial rewards and improving the working environment. [adapted from author]

This presentation details the issues of migration and retention in Swaziland.

This presentation on the emergency HR program in Malawi was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

This introductory presentation on maintaining economically sustainable staffing levels was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

This presentation on health worker retention in rural area was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

This presentation on the domestic training and international recruitment of health workers was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

This introductory presentation on migration and other health workforce issues in a global economy was offered during a dialogue hosted by the WHO and OECD.

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

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

This presentation discusses the roles and challenges of private sector midwives and how they can benefit community health care.

This presentation addresses the role and impact of traditional health service providers in India and how they help fill the gaps in health worker coverage. [from author]

This presentation from the Scaling Up High-Impact FP/MNCH Best Practices in Asia and the Near East Technical Meeting covers the reasons to support integrated services and the challenges to this process.

This presentation discusses the midwifery gap in Pakistan and the strategies they are using to address it.

This presentation describes the benefits and challenges of structured on-the-job training with evidence from a case study of Nepal.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It defines health leadership and management, why strengthening it is important, the lessons learned so far, and the main components and uses of the WHO framework. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It covers the imbalance in physician deployment in Ethiopia and the lottery system for ensuring coverage in rural areas.

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 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]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It talks about goverment spending policies on health worker wages and how they affect the health workforce.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It breaks down current health spending including HRH resource needs and gaps, provides a critical assessment of HRH financing by some of the top donors and addresses campaiging for adequate and sustained donor financing. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It presents five questions on the financial concerns of scaling up the number of health workers to provide adequate health care.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It describes a study to identify the level of satisfaction and intent to stay among health workers and effort to develop strategies to improve retention. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It describes a study done to analyze health worker perceptions of renumeration and determine the factors that affect the mobility of the health workforce in Burkina Faso

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the Zambia Health Workers Retention Scheme, an incentive program targeting key health worker cadres primarily in rural district to decrease attrition rates of critical service providers. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines HRH in the eastern Mediterranean region, trends in international nurse migration, and the Lebanese context. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines the Philippine’s HRH Master Plan to develop and install HHRMD systems that will support Philippine health sector reforms to improve health outcomes. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It details a study done to assess the feasibility and interest among stakeholders in the Netherlands, UK and US in facilitating recruitment and placement of foreign health care professionals to work in public sector health care in South Africa. [adapted from author]

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It discusses the situtation of rural health workers citing Mali and Madagascar as examples.

This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It outlines the micro-economics of health worker behaviour and discusses a study done to evaluate migration in Ghana.

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]