Human resources for health
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- A global shortage of 3.5 million midwives
- K. Rawe / Save the Children Fund , 2011
- Every year 48 million women in the world give birth without someone present who has recognised midwifery skills. This paper argues that the world needs more midwives and skilled birth attendants if...
- Setting global standards for midwifery training
- E. Girardet (ed) / World Health Organization , 2009
- The great variation in the levels of initial education for professional nurses and midwives around the world can no longer be neglected, and the need for global standards in this area is increasing...
- A summary midwifery worldwide in 2011
- J. Campbell (ed);V. Fauveau (ed);P.T. Hoope-Bender (ed) / United Nations Population Fund , 2011
- Increasing women’s access to quality midwifery services has become a focus of global efforts. This report presents a body of knowledge to inform and accelerate the availability of quality mid...
- Retention and satisfaction of midwives in Senegal
- D. Rouleau;P. Fournier;A. Philibert / Human Resources for Health, 2012
- Public sector midwives in Senegal play a key role in tackling maternal mortality. This study aims to explore their job satisfaction and its effects on their burnout, intention to quit and professio...
- Decentralising human resources for health in Brazil
- Celia R. Pierantoni;Ana C.P. Garcia / BioMed Central, 2011
- The Brazilian health reform process, following the establishment of the Unified Health System (SUS), has had a strong emphasis on decentralisation, with a special focus on financing, management and in...
- Shortage and maldistribution of health personnel in southeast Asia
- Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra;Magnus Lindelow;Timothy Johnston / The Lancet, 2011
- In this paper, published in the Lancet, the authors address the issues of shortage and maldistribution of health personnel in southeast Asia in the context of the international trade in health service...
- The likelihood of health workers taking up a rural area job under alternative incentive schemes
- Marko Vujcic;Marco Alfano;Bukhuti Shengelia / World Bank, 2010
- Globally, decision makers face serious challenges in attracting health workers to rural areas. According to the authors, while decision makers have access to a wide range of policy options, the effect...
- Innovations to improve the performance of the health workforce
- World Health Organization , 2010
- This briefing note posits that boosting the capacity of the health workforce is an integral part of health systems strengthening, and has to be a priority for achieving MDGs 4 and 5. ...
- Alert village toolkit: empowerment in MNH
- R. Sofiarini,;I.N.W. Kusuma,;J. O’Neill / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2010
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- Cost analyis system for maternal and neo-natal health services in Inodnesia
- R. Sofiarini;L. Goeman;G. Schimdt-Ehry / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2010
- This cost analysis complements the Community Empowerment in the Alert Village MNH Toolkit, contributing information to informed decision-making regarding implementation of the Alert Village from an ec...
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