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Jan 26, 2012
Retaining Health Workers in Sri Lanka
This video tells the story of a Sri Lankan paediatric doctor who is participating in a government scheme that places doctors in oversees placements for training with a bond that requires the doctor to return home and work at least four years for every year spent abroad in the placement.
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Jan 19, 2012
Mapping Child Mortality
This interactive map, developed by Merlin, highlights the disproportionate distribution of child mortality throughout the world. It allows users to explore the map to see a real life situation in each country to see some of the difficult decisions health workers have to make in its “5 impossible decisions” feature.
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Dec 15, 2011
Distance Learning for Health: What Works?
The London International Development Centre reviewed accredited post-qualification training programmes for health workers in low and middle income countries for the report Distance Learning for Health: What works.
This document summarises findings of a global review whose aim was to identify patterns of success and impact, and outline likely trends in the nature and provision of distance learning for health in low and middle income countries, hence informing future policy, research and investment in distance learning for health workers.
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Dec 8, 2011
Can Health Hotlines Transform Medical Care in Developing Countries?
The report Doctor in Your Pocket: Health Hotlines in Developing Countries:
tracks hotlines operating in developing countries that connect callers to health professionals, assesses the hotlines success to date, offers suggestions to advance this approach, and assesses their commercial viability and potential for growth.
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Nov 22, 2011
Gender Equality: What Gaps Remain?
The World Bank has released The 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development. This report discusses gains women have made in gender equity, points out areas where change is still necessary, and sets four priorities for action:
- Reducing excess female mortality and closing education gaps where they remain
- Improving access to economic opportunities for women
- Increasing women’s voice and agency in the household and in society
- Limiting the reproduction of gender inequality across generations.
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Nov 17, 2011
How Does Access to Mobile Phones Affect Health Care in Low Income Countries?
In the World Health Organization publication mHealth: New Horizons for Health through Mobile Technologies, the authors examine how:
the growing penetration of mobile phone networks in many low- and middle-income countries is transforming the way health services and information are accessed, delivered and managed. This document provides an overview of mHealth initiatives, an analysis of the results of the different types of intitiatives, barriers to implementation and an evaluation based on WHO surveys.
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Nov 10, 2011
Does Gender Affect Access to non-Pecuniary Benefits?
The journal Human Resources for Health recently published Access to Non-Pecuniary Benefits: Does Gender Matter? Evidence from Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries. This study:
investigates empirically whether gender differences can be observed in health workers’ access to non-pecuniary benefits across six low- and middle-income countries.
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Oct 13, 2011
Does Paying for Performance Improve Health Care in Low Resource Countries?
The journal Human Resources for Health recently published a study examining a "pay for performance" initiative in Pakistan. According to the article:
the role that the performance-based incentive (PBI) component played was less clear—PBI formed a relatively small component of pay, and did not increase in line with outputs. There was little evidence from interviews and data that the conditional element of the PBIs influenced behaviour.
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Sep 15, 2011
Examining the Human Resources for Health Situation
in GhanaThe Ghana Health Workforce Observatory has released the Ghana Human Resource for Health Country Profile. This document:
provides a comprehensive picture of the health workforce situation in Ghana; presents the HRH policies and management situation to help in monitoring the HRH stock and trends; provides basis for communication with and between policy-makers and stakeholders; strengthens the HRH information system by establishing evidence for baselines and trends; and facilitates information sharing and cross-country comparisons.
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Sep 8, 2011
How Does Health Work Migration Affect the Nursing Shortage in India?
The paper "Nursing Shortage in India with Special Reference to International Migration of Nurses," was recently published in Social Medicine. According to the abstract:
Although nursing services are an integral part of both preventive and curative aspects of India's health system, the nursing estimates of the country shows that India has been facing a shortage of nurses since independence. Studies show that professional, social and economic reasons are considered to be behind the nursing shortage in India.
