Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Health service delivery, Health systems, Health

Showing 161-170 of 181 results

Pages

  • Document

    Public health workforce: challenges and policy issues

    Human Resources for Health, 2003
    Although the public health workforce is central to the performance of health systems, very little is known about its composition, training or performance. The key policy question is: Should governments invest more in building and supporting the public health workforce and infrastructure to ensure the more effective functioning of health systems?
  • Document

    Key issues in human resource management in low and middle-income countries: a discussion paper outlining initial thinking for a DFID work programme

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2002
    Produced to provide support and guidance on human resource issues for the Department for International Development (DIFD), this paper argues that human resource issues in the health sector can only be effectively addressed when a more joined up approach is taken involving other sectors within the DFID Policy Directorate, particularly those working on governance and education.
  • Document

    Briefing note on international migration of health professionals: levelling the playing field for developing country health systems

    Health Sector Reform Research Work Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2002
    The international movement of labour is greatest amongst those with a high level of skill. Health professionals form the biggest group of skilled migrants.
  • Document

    Migration of highly skilled persons from developing countries: impact and policy responses

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    This report of a research project, commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Department for International Development (DFID) UK, is concerned with the impact of highly skilled emigration on developing countries and the policy options of developed countries.
  • Document

    Public service reforms and their impact on health sector personnel

    Department of Health Service Provision, WHO, 2000
    In most developing and transition countries the health care and public service systems are in a process of dramatic change, often referred to as reform. Many of these reforms are the result of external influences such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. Such change can sometimes bring about adverse unintended consequences for the health sector.
  • Document

    Human resources for health policies: a critical component in health policies

    Human Resources for Health, 2003
    In response to an identification of weaknesses in human resources in the health sector, this paper presents proposals on how to modernise how policy process is conducted in the development of human resources for health (HRH). The development of the health workforce is concluded to be a crucial part of the health policy development process.
  • Document

    Administrative and civil service reform – health sector issues

    Administrative and Civil Service Reform Website, World Bank, 2000
    Emphasising the potentially overlooked importance of managing and administrating human resources (HR) in the health sector in this web document, James Buchan acknowledges that managing HR in health care is a complex challenge and one that has often been underestimated when reform and restructuring has been planned.The author argues that focusing on change during health sector reform may challen
  • Document

    Achieving the right balance: the role of policy-making processes in managing human resources for health problems

    World Health Organization, 2000
    There is often a gap between health policy formulation and its practical implementation.
  • Document

    Planning human resources in health care: towards an economic approach : an international comparative review

    Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, 2003
    The planning of supply of and demand for human resources in healthcare is a neglected topic characterised by significant methodological weaknesses which have been discussed for decades but not resolved. Policy makers in Canada’s healthcare system recognise the need to plan health human resources better, with more systematic and integrated approaches.
  • Document

    Programme costs in the economic evaluation of health interventions

    Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2003
    Programme costs - costs incurred at the administrative levels outside the point of delivery of health care to beneficiaries - may comprise an important component of total costs. Cost-effectiveness analysis has sometimes omitted them if the main focus has been on personal curative interventions or on the costs of making small changes within the existing administrative set-up.

Pages