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    Exploring the influence of workplace trust over health worker performance: preliminary national overview report: Tanzania

    Health Economics and Financing Programme, 2004
    This study, commissioned by the Health Economics and Financing Programme, assesses the influence of workplace trust over health worker performance at primary care level in Tanzania and South Africa. The authors state that the notion of workplace trust is comprised of three elements, each of which is made of specific behaviours and procedures.
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    The providers of health services in Lebanon: a survey of physicians

    Human Resources for Health, 2006
    This article, published in Human Resources for Health, examines the number, distribution, and continuing education of physicians in Lebanon, using data from a 1998 survey. It reports that there are 248 physicians per 100,000 people in Lebanon – one of the highest ratios in the region – although this number varied widely between different parts of the country.
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    Retention of health care workers in low-resource settings: challenges and responses

    The Capacity Project, 2006
    Based on an intensive literature review, this technical brief from the Capacity Project, considers challenges and responses related to retention of health care workers. It specifically considers the causes of turnover, actions to address turnover and emerging evidence on retention approaches, all within the context of sub-Saharan Africa..
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    A new database of health professional emigration from Africa

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    As part of a larger study of the consequences of the international migration of African health professionals, this note for the Center for Global Development presents data on the flow of African-born physicians and nurses to the nine most important destination countries.
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    Can “pay for performance” increase utilization by the poor and improve the quality of health services?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    This background paper for the Working Group on Performance Based Incentives looks at a particular type of financing intervention to address the joint problems of under utilisation and low quality of health services. The paper focuses on demand and supply side financial and material (e.g.
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    Health human resources demand and management: strategies to confront crisis

    Global Health Trust, 2004
    This report, by the Joint Learning Initiative’s Working Group on Demand, considers health needs and current initiatives to improve health. The working group finds that labour markets for human resources have not produced the effective and motivated workforce that is necessary for the task and that the HRH efficiency is often impeded by low pay, low motivation, and dangerous working conditions.
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    Not enough there, too many here: understanding geographical imbalances in the distribution of the health workforce

    Human Resources for Health, 2006
    This paper, from Human Resources for Health, argues that the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) cannot be achieved if vulnerable populations do not have access to skilled personnel. The authors explore how geographical imbalances of qualified health personnel are a major barrier in access to health services.
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    Investing in Tanzanian human resources for health

    TOUCH Foundation, 2006
    This report, from the Touch Foundation, explores the human resources for health (HRH) challenge in developing countries. It uses Tanzania as a case study, as well as exploring the HRH situation elsewhere. The report finds that the health care crisis in Tanzania is acute and that there is a significant HRH shortage compared to neighbouring countries.
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    Merchants of labour

    International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 2006
    This collection of papers, from the Merchants of Labour: Policy Dialogue on the Agents of International Labour Migration’(April 2005), explores the role of recruitment and global migration. The collection defines merchants of labour as public and private agents who move workers over national borders.
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    The importance of human resources management in health care: a global context

    Human Resources for Health, 2006
    This paper, from Human Resources for Health, highlights the importance of human resources management (HRM) in improving overall patient health outcomes and delivery of health care services. The authors demonstrate how HRM is essential to any health care system and how it can improve health care models.

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