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Country and regional specific resources: Africa

• Aspirations for quality health care in Uganda: How do we get there?
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:13 (22 March 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Understanding the factors influencing health-worker employment decisions in South Africa
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:15 (23 April 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Motivation and incentives of rural maternal and neonatal health care providers: a comparison of qualitative findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania
  Article published in the BMC Health Services Research 2013, 13:149 (25 April 2013)
  1 April 2013
• An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
  Article published in the Implementation Science 2013, 8:48 (8 May 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Health workforce remuneration: comparing wage levels, ranking, and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:13 (22 March 2013)
  1 March 2013
• 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
• Human resources for health care delivery in Tanzania: a multifaceted problem
  Article published in Human Resources for Health online journal, 2012
  22 February 2012
• The human resource for health situation in Zambia: deficit and maldistribution
  Article published in the Human Resources for Health journal
  19 December 2011
• 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
• Task shifting in HIV/AIDS service delivery: An exploratory study of expert patients in Uganda
  USAID Health Care Improvement Project, Report, 2012
  30 November 2011
• Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis
  CapacityPlus Technical Brief 1, November 2011
  17 November 2011
• Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education - Webinars
  Distance Education Grand Rounds Series
  1 September 2011
• Aligning and Clarifying Health Worker Tasks to Improve Maternal Care in Niger
  The Tahoua Region Human Resources Quality Improvement Collaborative
  1 September 2011
• Health worker shortages in Zambia: An assessment of government responses
  Article published in the Journal of Public Health Policy
  18 August 2011
• Scaling-up the Community-Based Health Workforce for Emergencies
  Joint Statement by the Global Health Workforce Alliance, WHO, IFRC, UNICEF, UNHCR
  1 June 2011
• Honouring Heroes in Health
  Documentary film, Global Health Workforce Alliance, 2011
  1 March 2011
• Imagine...
  Animated film, 2011
  27 January 2011
• 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
• Doctors and Nurses
  BBC World News Documentary film
  19 August 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
• 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
• Rural practice preferences among medical students in Ghana: a discrete choice experiment
  WHO Bulletin
  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
• Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Ethiopia and Rwanda
  WHO Bulletin
  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
• Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Measuring health workforce inequalities in the Ethiopian context: methods and applications
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Programme evaluation training for health professionals in francophone Africa: process, competence acquisition and use
  Article
  1 January 2009
• 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
• Working in health. Financing and managing the public sector health workforce
  The World Bank, book
  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
• Competency Gaps in Human Resource Management in the Health Sector: An Exploratory Study in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
  Members document
  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
• The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health. Country Profile, Malawi
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Profil en Ressources Humaines en Santé République Islamique de Mauritanie
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, The Gambia
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, Uganda
  Members document
  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
• Remodeling pharmaceutical care in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) amidst human resources challenges and the HIV/AIDS pandemic
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Mentoring And Organisational Constraints As Predictors Of Attitudes To Work In The Nigerian Public Health Sector
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Supporting Health Worker Performance with Effective Supervision
  Members document
  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
• How to manage organisational change and create practice teams: experiences of a South African primary care health centre.
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Scaling Up, Saving Lives
  Report
  1 January 2008
• Appropriate training and retention of community doctors in rural areas: a case study from Mali
  Article
  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
• Call to Action: Health System Strengthening through the Global Fund Round 9 in 2008
  Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, Advocacy document
  1 January 2008
• The Health Workforce: Scaling up through primary health care
  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
• Evaluation a mi-parcours du projet santé sud Madagascar
  Institut National de Santé Publique et Communautaire, Madagascar, Report
  1 January 2008
• Human Resources for Health, Country Profile Nigeria.
  Country profile
  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
• Human resources for health in Africa: experiences, challenges and realities
  Report
  1 January 2007
• Postoperative outcome of caesarean sections and other major emergency obstetric surgery by clinical officers and medical officers in Malawi
  Study
  1 January 2007
• Call for commitment on health workforce development
  Advocacy document
  1 January 2007
• Major surgery delegation to mid-level health practitioners in Mozambique: health professionals' perceptions
  Study
  1 January 2007
• Africa Health Strategy: 2007-2015
  African Union, strategic document
  1 January 2007
• Do visas kill? Health effects of African health professional emigration
  Members document
  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
• Health worker motivation in Africa: the role of non-financial incentives and human resource management tools
  Article
  1 January 2006
• Informal consultation on scaling up health workforce production
  Report
  1 January 2006
• The flight of physicians from West Africa: views of African physicians and implications for policy.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2005
• 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
• The SAZA study: implementing health financing reform in South Africa and Zambia
  Article
  1 January 2003