Management of resources and support systems:
Human resources
Country experiences
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Health Workforce Challenges: Lessons from Country Experiences
High Level Forum on the Health MDGs, 2004
Push and pull factors in migration; maldistribution, low effectiveness and productivity, poor mix of skills; increase investment in pre-service training, use unemployed and retired trained staff; streamline recruitment; improve income and conditions; career structure, retirement package; obligatory government service for graduates; improve distribution; raise quality and productivity
(24 pages, pdf 398kb) -
Using Human Resource for Health Data: Health policy and program planning examples from four African countries
2008, USAID
Malawi, Côte D’Ivoire, Lesotho, Zambia; HR information systems; action taken based on HR data; HR development; constraints in using data; HR management
(30 pages, pdf 310kb) -
Identifying Factors for Job Motivation of Rural Health Workers in North Viet Nam
Marjolein Dieleman, Pham Viet Cuong, Le Vu Anh and Tim Martineau, Human Resources for Health 2003, 1:10
Motivating factors: appreciation, stable income and training; discouraging factors: low salaries and difficult working conditions
(10 pages, pdf 262kb) -
Human Relations: Building Leadership in Southern Sudan's Health Sector
2008, The Capacity Project, Voices 24
the personal story of a manager in the Ministry of Health who benefited from the Project's leadership development training and went in to train key managers in the health sector.
(2 pages, pdf 195kb)