Centres for systematic reviews of health policy and systems research in low-and middle-income countries
Centre for Systematic Reviews on Human Resources for Health, Uganda
The Centre for Systematic Reviews on Human Resources for Health was launched in April 2007. The main objectives of the Centre are to conduct, disseminate and promote utilization of high-quality systematic reviews on issues of human resources for health relevant to decision makers, health managers, policy makers and researchers in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
Specifically the Centre aims to:
- Establish a thematic centre for systematic reviews on human resources for health.
- Produce relevant appropriately packaged systematic reviews of human resources for health for various target audiences.
- Identify primary studies relevant to human resources for health and publish them within the Centre’s library database.
- Identify innovations, challenges, gaps and opportunities in human resources for health research.
- Contribute in the development of methodologies and guidelines for undertaking systematic reviews which are relevant to LMICs.
- Develop capacity for conducting systematic reviews in health policy and systems research among health professionals nationally and internationally.
In its third year, the Centre plans to review three research areas:
Review topic 1: Effects of interventions implemented to regulate absenteeism of health workers
Review topic 2: Interventions for managing the movement of health workers between public and private organizations in low- and middle-income countries.
Review topic 3: Regulatory mechanisms for absenteeism in the health sector - a systematic review of approaches and implementation.
Two projects focusing on dual practice were completed last year.
1. Dual practice regulatory mechanisms in the health sector: A systematic review of approaches and implementation. EPPI-Centre Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London 2010 (in press EPPI centre)
2. Effects of interventions to manage dual practice (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010. (available for download below)
Project description
Programme:Centres for systematic reviews of health policy and systems research in low-and middle-income countries
Research title:Centre for Systematic Reviews on Human Resources for Health
Thematic Research Area: Human Resources for Health
Grantee Country:Uganda
Grantee Institution:Department of Health Policy Planning and Management, Makerere University School of Public Health
Program Coordinator/Principle Investigator: George William Pariyo
Start date: April 2007
Status of grant: Ongoing
Related publications/policy briefs
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Pariyo GW, Kiwanuka SN, Rutebemberwa E, Olico-Okui, Ssengooba F, Peterson S, and Baine SO. Effects of changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers on health worker supply. Cochrane Library 2009, Issue 2
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Kiwanuka SN et al (2010). Effects of interventions to manage dual practice. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 3.
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Kiwanuka SN et al (2011). Dual practice regulatory mechanisms in the health sector. A systematic review of approaches and implementation
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