Mobile health (mHealth) applications, such as innovative electronic forms on smartphones, could potentially improve the performance of health care workers and health systems in developing countries. However, contextual evidence on health workers' barriers and motivating factors that may influence large-scale implementation of such interfaces for health care delivery is … [Read more...] about Health workers’ experiences, barriers, preferences and motivating factors in using mHealth forms in Ethiopia
Shifting management of a community volunteer system for improved child health outcomes: results from an operations research study in Burundi
Community-based strategies that foster frequent contact between caregivers of children under five and provide credible sources of health information are essential to improve child survival. Care Groups are a community-based implementation strategy for the delivery of social and behavior change interventions. This study assessed if supervision of Care Group activities by … [Read more...] about Shifting management of a community volunteer system for improved child health outcomes: results from an operations research study in Burundi
Effective in-service traininig design and delivery: Evidence from an integrative literature review
The need to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of both pre-service education and continuing professional education (CPE) (in-service training) for the health workforce has never been greater. Decreasing global resources and a pervasive critical shortage of skilled health workers are paralleled by an explosion in the increase of and access to information. Researchers … [Read more...] about Effective in-service traininig design and delivery: Evidence from an integrative literature review
Scaling Up Community-Based Service Delivery of Implanon: The Integrated Family Health Program’s Experience Training Health Extension Workers
With over 77 million people, Ethiopia has the second largest population in subSaharan Africa and it continues to grow rapidly. Though the country’s contraceptive prevalence rate grew from 8 percent in 2000 to 15 percent in 2005 and nearly 80 percent of currently-married Ethiopian women want to either stop or postpone childbearing, demand for contraception has grown faster than … [Read more...] about Scaling Up Community-Based Service Delivery of Implanon: The Integrated Family Health Program’s Experience Training Health Extension Workers
Human Resources for Health Country Profile: The Gambia
This report was created in 2009 by the African Health Workforce Observatory in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Alliance, and the European Union. It outlines the structure of the Gambian health system and introduces data on the health workforce, including distribution of health workforce, health workforce production and utilization, and … [Read more...] about Human Resources for Health Country Profile: The Gambia