HRH Global Resource Center - Documents & Reports

Integrating the PEPFAR Technical Considerations into Health Services to Improve the Clinical Management of Children and Adolescents Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence in Kenya: Final Report

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:27:55 +0000

This final report documents achievements and lessons learned from the activity and includes the findings from a desk review and training needs assessment that informed the development of the new training module and supplemental training and performance support materials. [from resource]

Para Professionals in the Social Service Workforce: Guiding Principles, Functions and Competencies

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:40:45 +0000

The group developed a set of guiding principles for working with para professionals to form a base from which to develop programs and activities related to how these workers can be trained, developed, deployed and supported. The group also decided that an important contribution to this area of work would be the development of a competency framework for para professionals that would outline the functions and competencies of para professionals and could be used to provide program guidance, accountability and ultimately inform both training and supervision. [from resource]

The Data Revolution: Finding the Missing Millions

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:50:30 +0000

This report sets out the evidence that, even when people are counted, the counting is frequently not good enough. What is assumed to be an empirical fact – a statistic – is too often the result not of direct observation but of inference, assumptions or extrapolation, or political negotiation. In sub-Saharan Africa, some 133,000 women may have died from childbirth-related causes in 2013, or twice as many. We cannot be sure. [from introduction]

Tracking Universal Health Coverage: First Global Monitoring Report

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:16:34 +0000

This report is the first of its kind to measure health service coverage and financial protection to assess countries’ progress towards universal health coverage. It shows that at least 400 million people do not have access to one or more essential health services and 6% of people in low- and middle-income countries are tipped into or pushed further into extreme poverty because of health spending. [from introduction]

A Partnership Model for the Training and Professional Development of Health-Care Staff in Low-Resource Settings

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:33:39 +0000

The model of “health partnerships” or “twinning” between hospitals or health-care training institutions in high-income countries and those in low- or middle-income countries (LMIC) has a role to play in addressing global deficiencies in the quantity, quality and accessibility of human resources for cancer control. [from abstract]

Engaging Communities for Increasing Immunisation Coverage: What Do We Know?

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:05:51 +0000

The scoping paper focuses primarily on interventions and policies that lie at the intersection of immunisation and community engagement approaches. [from abstract]

Indigenous Peoples’ Access to Health Services

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:48:24 +0000

This publication sets out to examine the major challenges for indigenous peoples to obtain adequate access to and utilization of quality health care services. It provides an important background to many of the health issues that indigenous peoples are currently facing. Improving indigenous peoples’ health remains a critical challenge for indigenous peoples, States and the United Nations. [from forward]

Nurses’ Work Motivation: Essence and Associations

Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:11:34 +0000

The purpose of this study was to describe and explain hospital nurses’ work motivati on and the factors associated with it. The study was performed between 2009 and 2014. [from abstract]

Impact of Health Systems Strengthening on Health

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:27:03 +0000

This report, based on a review of systematic reviews of the effects on health of Health System Strengthening (HSS), presents a significant body of evidence linking HSS interventions to measureable impact on health for vulnerable people in low- and middle-income countries. Making decisions on who delivers health services and where and how these services are organized is important to achieve priority health goals. The findings of this report document the value of investing in HSS. [adapted from resource]

Progress for Children Beyond Averages: Learning from the MDGs (No. 11)

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:45:16 +0000

This eleventh edition of Progress for Children is UNICEF’s final report on the child-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It presents latest data that show while the MDGs helped drive tremendous advances in the lives of the world’s children, development efforts in the past 15 years failed to reach millions of the most disadvantaged. The report spotlights where the international community must now focus attention and action to reach the most vulnerable children and achieve sustainable growth. [from abstract]