Case studies and good practice reports

"Scaling Up, Saving Lives" country case studies

Accompanying the report of the Task Force on Scaling up Education and Training of Health workers --Scaling Up, Saving Lives-- are a series of country case studies, commissioned as part of the Task Force work. Currently available are five published country case studies: from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India and Malawi. These case studies describe successful scale up models which are central in bringing about improvements in the health status of their populations.

• Case studies and best practice

• Mobility of health professionals – case stories
  Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf) document
  1 November 2012
• Reduction in child mortality in Niger: a Countdown to 2015 country case study
  Article published in The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 20 September 2012
  1 September 2012
• "More money for HRH: more HRH for the money"
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, TOPIC BRIEF: Financing Human Resources for Health
  1 June 2012
• A rapid assessment of utilization, effectiveness a added value of the knowledge centres at Bishoftu and Durame hospitals in Ethiopia
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, case study
  1 December 2011
• Midwifery Workforce Management and Innovation
  2011, Background document for The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011
  1 June 2011
• Mid-level health providers a promising resource to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, Report
  30 December 2010
• THE MOROCCO COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Positive Practice Environments
  Morocco Case Study: Health Care Environments in Morocco
  16 December 2010
• The Uganda Country Case Study: Positive Practice in Uganda: Enhancing health worker and health system performance
  The Uganda Country Case Study
  27 October 2010
• The Zambia Country Case Study: Positive Practice Environments: Quality Workplaces for Quality Care
  The Zambia Country Case Study
  27 October 2010
• Global Experience of Community Health Workers for Delivery of Health Related Millennium Development Goals: A Systematic Review, Country Case Studies, and Recommendations for Integration into National Health Systems
  Alliance document
  14 October 2010
• Access for all to skilled, motivated, and supported health workers
  2010, Background Paper for the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
  30 September 2010
• Community Health Workers - Key messages
  Advocacy document
  30 June 2010
• Case Study: Scaling Up Education and Training of Human Resources for Health in Ethiopia. Moving towards achieving the MDGs.
  Case Study
  26 February 2010
• Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• The Chattisgarh Experience with a Three-Year Course for Rural Health Care Practitioners
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• A realist synthesis of randomised control trials involving use of community health workers for delivering child health interventions in low and middle income countries
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Costing the scaling-up of human resources for health: lessons from Mozambique and Guinea Bissau
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• A realist evaluation of the management of a well- performing regional hospital in Ghana
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Health workforce responses to global health initiatives funding: a comparison of Malawi and Zambia
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Job satisfaction and its modeling among township health center employees: a quantitative study in poor rural China
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Human Resources for Health in Maternal, Neonatal and Reproductive Health at the Community level: A Synthesis of the Literature with a focus on the Asia pacific Region.
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Responding in Crisis-The role of national and international health workers-Lessons from Haiti
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• Nurse versus doctor management of HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (CIPRA-SA): a randomized non-inferiority trial
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Systematic review: Effects, design choices, and context of pay-for-performance in health care
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• Preventive staff-support interventions for health workers
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Factors affecting recruitment and retention of community health workers in a newborn care intervention in Bangladesh
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Searching for common ground on incentive packages for community workers and volunteers in Zambia
  National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council, Zambia, Report
  1 January 2009
• Provision of anesthesia services for emergency obstetric care through task shifting in South Asia
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Does a code make a difference – assessing the English code of practice on international recruitment.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• A cost-effectiveness study of caesarean-section deliveries by clinical officers, general practitioners and obstetricians in Burkina Faso
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from experience – capitalizing on new opportunities
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Assessment of human resources for health using cross-national comparison of facility surveys in six countries
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• A cross-country review of strategies of the German development cooperation to strengthen human resources.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Burnout and use of HIV services among health care workers in Lusaka District, Zambia: a cross-sectional study
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Healthcare workers and the brain drain
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Health workforce development planning in the Sultanate of Oman: a case study
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Leveraging human capital to reduce maternal mortality in India: enhanced public health system or public-private partnership?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Human resource management interventions to improve health workers' performance in low and middle income countries: a realist review
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Expanding immunization coverage in rural India: A review of evidence for the role of community health workers
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas: seven management functions.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practicing in rural and other underserved areas.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Relationship between job burnout and work performance in a sample of Iranian mental health staff
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• A Study Of Job Satisfaction And Work Environment Perception Among Doctors In A Tertiary Hospital In Delhi
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Impact of Ministry of Health Interventions on Private Medicine Retailer Knowledge and Practices on Anti-Malarial Treatment in Kenya
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Work satisfaction of professional nurses in South Africa: a comparative analysis of the public and private sectors
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Developing a tool to measure health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• 'Paying for performance' in Rwanda: does it pay off?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of payment: effects on the behaviour of primary care physicians
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Performance-based payment: some reflections on the discourse, evidence and unanswered questions
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Remodeling pharmaceutical care in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) amidst human resources challenges and the HIV/AIDS pandemic
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Primary Health Care for Remote Village Communities in Honduras: A Model for Training and Support of Community Health Workers
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Physician supply forecast: better than peering in a crystal ball?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Mentoring And Organisational Constraints As Predictors Of Attitudes To Work In The Nigerian Public Health Sector
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• A novel method for measuring health care system performance: experience from QIDS in the Philippines
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• A review of the application and contribution of discrete choice experiments to inform human resources policy interventions
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• From staff-mix to skill-mix and beyond: towards a systemic approach to health workforce management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Task shifting in HIV/AIDS: opportunities, challenges and proposed actions for sub-Saharan Africa
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Perceptions of working conditions amongst health workers in state-owned facilities in northeastern Nigeria
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Bangladesh trains health workers to reduce maternal mortality
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Ethiopia's human resources for health programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Ghana: implementing a national human resources for health plan
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Malawi's Emergency Human Resources Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Pakistan's Lady Health Worker Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Call to Action: Health System Strengthening through the Global Fund Round 9 in 2008
  Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, Advocacy document
  1 January 2008
• Case studies: Iran and Pakistan
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, Dr Mubashar Sheikh, Case study presentation
  1 January 2008
• Impact des mesures d’incitation financière accordées aux médecins, pharmaciens et chirurgiens dentistes
  Ministère de la Santé Publique, Republique du Niger, Report
  1 January 2008
• Case studies summary
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• The US physician workforce: where do we stand?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• International mobility of health professionals and health workforce management in Canada: myths and realities
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• Project OCDE sur la migration des professionels de santé: le cas de la France
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• Mismatches in the formal sector, expansion of the informal sector: immigration of health professionals to Italy
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• Health workforce and international migration: can New Zealand compete?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• Migration of health workers: the UK perspective to 2006
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• Nurse workforce challenges in the United States: implications for policy
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• Evaluation a mi-parcours du projet santé sud Madagascar
  Institut National de Santé Publique et Communautaire, Madagascar, Report
  1 January 2008
• How much does quality of child care vary between health workers with differing durations of training? An observational multicountry study
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Human resources for maternal health: multi-purpose or specialists?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Can the feedback of patient assessments, brief training, or their combination, improve the interpersonal skills of primary care physicians? A systematic review
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Job stress, recognition, job performance and intention to stay at work among Jordanian hospital nurses
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Employment preferences of public sector nurses in Malawi: results from a discrete choice experiment.
  Case study
  1 January 2008
• Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Effectiveness of training supervisors to improve reproductive health quality of care: a cluster-randomized trial in Kenya
  Case study
  1 January 2008
• Immigrant health workers in OECD countries in the broader context of highly skilled migration
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2007
• Strengthening Management In Low-Income Countries: Lessons From Uganda A Case Study On Management Of Health Services Delivery
  Members document
  1 January 2007
• Strategic management of the health workforce in developing countries: what have we learned?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2007
• An intervention involving traditional birth attendants and perinatal and maternal mortality in Pakistan.
  Case study
  1 January 2005
• The flight of physicians from West Africa: views of African physicians and implications for policy.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2005
• Human Resources and Health Outcomes: Cross-Country Econometric Study
  Case study
  1 January 2004
• Dual practice in the health sector: review of the evidence
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2004
• Human resources for health: Requirements and availability in the context of scaling-up priority interventions in low-income countries Case studies from Tanzania and Chad
  Case study
  1 January 2004