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    Health workforce skill mix and task shifting in low income countries: a review of recent evidence

    Human Resources for Health, 2011
    Health workforce shortages and skill imbalances are significant challenges, yet task shifting (delegating tasks to new cadres with narrowly tailored training) is a potential strategy to address these challenges. This article reviews take shifting in low-income countries and proposes an agenda for further research.Findings include:
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    Policy and programmatic implications of task shifting in Uganda: a case study

    BioMed Central, 2012
    Uganda has a severe health worker shortage and a high demand for health care services; therefore, task shifting is happening in Uganda on a wide scale, at various levels of care, in many forms. This study aims to assess the policy and programmatic implications of task shifting in Uganda.
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    Task-shifting: experiences and opinions of health workers in Mozambique and Zambia

    Human Resources for Health, 2012
    The consequences of staff deficits include heavier workloads for those on duty, the closure of some services, loss of quality and hazards for health workers and managers. This paper describes the task-shifting taking place in health centers and district hospitals in Mozambique and Zambia, aiming to determine the positive and negative consequences of this phenomenon.
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    Task shifting of antiretroviral treatment from doctors to primary-care nurses in South Africa (STRETCH): a pragmatic, parallel, cluster-randomised trial

    The Lancet, 2012
    The effectiveness of task shifting of antiretroviral therapy (ART) from doctors to other health workers needs to be evaluated. This paper assesses the effects of task shifting in terms of ART on mortality, viral suppression, and other health outcomes, focusing particularly on South Africa.
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    ICT in health care delivery system: A framework for developing nations

    2012
    This paper aims to discuss how ICT has contributed of health in different part of the world, its cost effectiveness and provide a framework for implementation in developing countries with evidences to why developing nations must embrace the opportunity and benefits of ICT in their health sector reform .
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    The role of mhealth in the fight against tuberculosis

    mHealth Alliance, 2012
    New tools and simple, affordable innovations to better detect people suffering from tuberculosis (TB) are needed, and making health services available to the people most vulnerable to contracting it is deeply required. This paper argues that mobile phones can bring about such positive change.
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    Valuing Health Workers Research and Advocacy

    Voluntary Service Overseas, 2011
    A clear, concise 2 page publication to introduce the research and advocacy programme designed to provide evidence for governments on how best to change policy and implementation to address health worker shortages. A clear summary of aims is supported by short summaries of research done in Uganda, Cambodia and Malawi.
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    The health workforce crisis in Bangladesh: shortage, inappropriate skill-mix and inequitable distribution

    BRAC Education Programme, 2012
    Bangladesh is suffering from a severe HRH crisis–in terms of a shortage of qualified providers, an inappropriate skills-mix and inequity in distribution–which requires immediate attention from policy makers.
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    Missing midwives

    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 the Millennium Development Goals to reduce child deaths by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters are to be met.
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    Global standards for the initial education of professional nurses and midwives

    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 increasingly voiced. This document describes the context and process followed in developing global standards for midwifery education, and presents the standards with their respective goals.

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