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International Journal for Quality in Health Care
The International Journal for Quality in Health Care conducts activities and research related to quality and safety in health care. - Document
How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings?
The Lancet, 2005This paper, published in the Lancet presents an overview of the issues and evidence about the determinants of health worker performance and strategies for improving it. The paper examines the factors and environments that might influence health worker practices and highlights strategies for improving health-worker performance.DocumentHuman resources for health: a gender analysis
Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007This paper discusses gender issues manifested within health occupations and across them. It examines gender dynamics in medicine, nursing, community health workers and home carers and explores from a gender perspective issues concerning delegation, migration and violence, which cut across these categories of health workers.DocumentPeople first: African solutions to the health worker crisis
African Medical and Research Foundation, 2007This AMREF briefing paper explores different ways of addressing the health worker crisis in Africa. It addresses problems of poor training, motivation and retention of health workers, the lack of skilled health workers in remote and hard to reach areas, and poor community engagement with health systems.DocumentForecasting the global burden of Alzheimer's disease
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2007How will the global burden of Alzheimer’s disease develop? What is the potential impact of interventions that delay disease onset or progression? This paper examines these questions using a stochastic multi-state model in conjunction with U.N. worldwide population forecasts and data from epidemiological studies on risks of Alzheimer’s disease.Key findings are that:DocumentPublic policy and the challenge of chronic noncommunicable diseases
Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2007This World Bank report contains an agenda for action in response to the growing economic, social and health problems posed by non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The report addresses the global non-communicable disease trends and offers a framework for improving outcomes in relation to the prevention and control of NCDs.DocumentHelp wanted: confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment
Médecins Sans Frontières, 2007This Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) report examines the impact of human resources shortages witnessed by MSF teams in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, focusing largely on nurses in rural areas. It describes how MSF teams and local partners are trying to overcome human resource constraints.DocumentIs it worth it for Tanzania to invest in community midwives?
White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, 2006This report by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in Tanzania, summarises the key points discussed at a forum exploring the issues impacting on the maternal health crisis in Tanzania.DocumentStrengthening of health systems for equity and development in Africa
African Union, 2007This strategy paper sets out the objectives and strategic approaches of the African Union ministers of health in order to improve the health of its people and ensure access to essential health care for all Africans, especially the poorest and most marginalised by 2015.DocumentAn evaluation of infant immunization in Africa: is a transformation in progress?
Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007This paper, in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, assesses the progress towards meeting the goals of the African Regional strategic Plan of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation between 2001 and 2005.Pages